Covenants - Law Dictionary Search Results
Contract of tenancy
Contract of tenancy, is a letting of land, or an agreement for letting land, for a term of years or from year to year, and a letting or an agreement converted into a letting or agreement...
Servi testamentales
Servi testamentales, covenant-servants.
Comart
A covenant
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Concordat
A compact covenant or agreement concerning anything
Discovenant
To dissolve covenant with
Contrahent
Entering into covenant contracting as contrahent parties
Covenant
pereat; fourthy, when no time is limited for its performance, that it be performed in a reasonable time. Covenants are personal obligations; formerly the did not bind theheirs of the covenanter unless the heirs were named and
Landlord and tenant
and to the assignees by privity of estate only; thus a lessee is liable for the rent and covenants notwithstanding assignment, while assignees being only bound by privity of estate, their obligations cease upon assignment over. Further,
Run with the land-Run with the reversion
the assignee of that reversion. Consult Spencer's case, (1583) 1 Sm LC 1, where a list of the covenants running with the land and not so running is given; and see, too, Woodfall, L & T.; Dyson
Apportionment
the proceedings, see Bliss v. Collins, (1822) 5 B&Ald 876; Swansea Corporation v. Thomas, (1882) 10 QBD 48. Covenants if implied by law were apportionable but express covenants were not, until the 32 Hen. 8, c. 34,
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