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Covenant
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CovenantA written document in which signatories either commit themselves to do a certain thing, to not do a certain thing or in which they agree on a certain set of facts. They are very common in real property dealings and are used to restrict land use such as amongst shopping mall tenants or for the purpose of preserving heritage property. For example, a coventor to a mortgage commits themself to pay the mortgage if the mortgagor defaults.
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Commit
To send a person to prison, asylum, or reformatory by a court order.
Common
marriage law. a marriage in which no formal ceremony took place and no license exists.
Real
1) A term which is applied to land in its most enlarged signification. Real security, therefore, means the security of mortgages or other incumbrances affecting lands. 2) In the civil law, real has not the same meaning as it has in the common law. There it signifies what relates to a thing, whether it be movable or immovable, lands or goods; thus, a real injury is one which is done to a thing, as a trespass to property, whether it be real or personal in the common law sense. A real statute is one which relates to a thing, in contradistinction to such as relate to a person.
Property
Property is commonly thought of as a thing which belongs to someone and over which a person has total control. But, legally, it is more properly defined as a collection of legal rights over a thing. These rights are usually total and fully enforceable by the state or the owner against others. It has been said that "property and law were born and die together. Before laws were made there was no property. Take away laws and property ceases." before laws were written and enforced, property had no relevance. Possession was all that mattered. There are many classifications of property, the most common being between real property or immoveable property (real estate such as land or buildings) and "chattel", or "moveable" (things which are not attached to the land such as a bicycle, a car or a hammer) and between public (property belonging to everybody or to the state) and private property.
Dealings
Traffic, trade; the transaction of business between two or more persons.
Heritage
By this word is understood, among the civilians, every species of immovable which can be the subject of property, such as lands, houses, orchards, woods, marshes, ponds, in whatever mode they may have been acquired, either by descent or purchase.
Example
An example is a case put to illustrate a. principle.
Mortgage
A legal instrument that creates a lien upon real estate securing the payment of a specific debt.
Mortgagor
Estate's, contracts. He who makes a mortgage.
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Covenant for quiet enjoyment
A covenant usually contained in a lease, by which the lessor covenants or agrees that the tenant shall quietly enjoy the premises leased.
Covenant for title
An assurance to the purchaser that the grantor has the very estate in quantity and quality which he purports to convey.
Covenantee
One in whose favor a covenant is made.
Covenantor
One who becomes bound to perform a covenant.
Covenants performed
Pleading. In Pennsylvania, the defendant may plead covenants performed to an action of covenant, and upon this plea, upon informal notice to the plaintiff, he may give anything in evidence which he might have pleaded.
Coventry act
Criminal law. It having been enacted in consequence of an assault on Sir John Coventry in the street, and slitting his nose, in revenge, as was supposed, for some obnoxious words uttered by him in parliament.
Covert
French covrir, to cover. 1. Covered, protected. 2. Implied, inferred. 3. Under the disability of marriage; married. Discovert meaning unmarried, whether said of a widow or of a spinster.
Covert baron
A wife: under the protection of her husband or baron.
Covert operation
A plan or activity to obtain evidence through Operatives or Agents whose true role is undisclosed to the target. Examples of covert operations include Undercover work and Pretense.
Covert, baron
A wife; so called, from her being under the cover or protection of her hushand, baron or lord.
Coverture
The state or condition of a married woman.
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Court-appointed attorney
Attorney appointed by the court to represent a defendant, usually with respect to criminal charges and without the defendant having to pay for the representation.
Courtesy
Courtesy or curtesy. Scotch law. A right which vests in the hushand, and is in the nature of a life-rent. It is a counterpart of the terce.
Courtesy of england
An estate for life, created by act of law, which is defined as follows: When a man marries a woman, seised at any time during the coverture of an estate of inheritance, in severalty, in coparcenary, or in common, and has issue by her born alive, and which migbt by possibility inherit the same estate as heir to the wife, and the wife dies in the lifetime of the hushand, he holds the lands during, his life by the curtesy of England, and it is immaterial whether the issue be living at the time of the seisin, or at the death of the wife, or whether it was born before or after the seisin.
Courts of common pleas
The state trial-level courts that have the authority to grant divorce.
Cousin
Domest. rel. Cousins are kindred who are the issue of two brothers or two sisters, or of a brother and a sister. Those who descend from the brother or sister of the father of the person spoken of are called patternal cousins; maternal cousins are those who are descended from the brothers or sisters of the mother.
Covenant
Covenant for quiet enjoyment
A covenant usually contained in a lease, by which the lessor covenants or agrees that the tenant shall quietly enjoy the premises leased.
Covenant for title
An assurance to the purchaser that the grantor has the very estate in quantity and quality which he purports to convey.
Covenantee
One in whose favor a covenant is made.
Covenantor
One who becomes bound to perform a covenant.
Covenants performed
Pleading. In Pennsylvania, the defendant may plead covenants performed to an action of covenant, and upon this plea, upon informal notice to the plaintiff, he may give anything in evidence which he might have pleaded.
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Commit
To send a person to prison, asylum, or reformatory by a court order.
Common
marriage law. a marriage in which no formal ceremony took place and no license exists.
Real
1) A term which is applied to land in its most enlarged signification. Real security, therefore, means the security of mortgages or other incumbrances affecting lands. 2) In the civil law, real has not the same meaning as it has in the common law. There it signifies what relates to a thing, whether it be movable or immovable, lands or goods; thus, a real injury is one which is done to a thing, as a trespass to property, whether it be real or personal in the common law sense. A real statute is one which relates to a thing, in contradistinction to such as relate to a person.
Property
Property is commonly thought of as a thing which belongs to someone and over which a person has total control. But, legally, it is more properly defined as a collection of legal rights over a thing. These rights are usually total and fully enforceable by the state or the owner against others. It has been said that "property and law were born and die together. Before laws were made there was no property. Take away laws and property ceases." before laws were written and enforced, property had no relevance. Possession was all that mattered. There are many classifications of property, the most common being between real property or immoveable property (real estate such as land or buildings) and "chattel", or "moveable" (things which are not attached to the land such as a bicycle, a car or a hammer) and between public (property belonging to everybody or to the state) and private property.
Dealings
Traffic, trade; the transaction of business between two or more persons.
Heritage
By this word is understood, among the civilians, every species of immovable which can be the subject of property, such as lands, houses, orchards, woods, marshes, ponds, in whatever mode they may have been acquired, either by descent or purchase.
Example
An example is a case put to illustrate a. principle.
Mortgage
A legal instrument that creates a lien upon real estate securing the payment of a specific debt.
Mortgagor
Estate's, contracts. He who makes a mortgage.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Covenant for quiet enjoyment
A covenant usually contained in a lease, by which the lessor covenants or agrees that the tenant shall quietly enjoy the premises leased.
Covenant for title
An assurance to the purchaser that the grantor has the very estate in quantity and quality which he purports to convey.
Covenantee
One in whose favor a covenant is made.
Covenantor
One who becomes bound to perform a covenant.
Covenants performed
Pleading. In Pennsylvania, the defendant may plead covenants performed to an action of covenant, and upon this plea, upon informal notice to the plaintiff, he may give anything in evidence which he might have pleaded.
Coventry act
Criminal law. It having been enacted in consequence of an assault on Sir John Coventry in the street, and slitting his nose, in revenge, as was supposed, for some obnoxious words uttered by him in parliament.
Covert
French covrir, to cover. 1. Covered, protected. 2. Implied, inferred. 3. Under the disability of marriage; married. Discovert meaning unmarried, whether said of a widow or of a spinster.
Covert baron
A wife: under the protection of her husband or baron.
Covert operation
A plan or activity to obtain evidence through Operatives or Agents whose true role is undisclosed to the target. Examples of covert operations include Undercover work and Pretense.
Covert, baron
A wife; so called, from her being under the cover or protection of her hushand, baron or lord.
Coverture
The state or condition of a married woman.
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Court-appointed attorney
Attorney appointed by the court to represent a defendant, usually with respect to criminal charges and without the defendant having to pay for the representation.
Courtesy
Courtesy or curtesy. Scotch law. A right which vests in the hushand, and is in the nature of a life-rent. It is a counterpart of the terce.
Courtesy of england
An estate for life, created by act of law, which is defined as follows: When a man marries a woman, seised at any time during the coverture of an estate of inheritance, in severalty, in coparcenary, or in common, and has issue by her born alive, and which migbt by possibility inherit the same estate as heir to the wife, and the wife dies in the lifetime of the hushand, he holds the lands during, his life by the curtesy of England, and it is immaterial whether the issue be living at the time of the seisin, or at the death of the wife, or whether it was born before or after the seisin.
Courts of common pleas
The state trial-level courts that have the authority to grant divorce.
Cousin
Domest. rel. Cousins are kindred who are the issue of two brothers or two sisters, or of a brother and a sister. Those who descend from the brother or sister of the father of the person spoken of are called patternal cousins; maternal cousins are those who are descended from the brothers or sisters of the mother.
Covenant
Covenant for quiet enjoyment
A covenant usually contained in a lease, by which the lessor covenants or agrees that the tenant shall quietly enjoy the premises leased.
Covenant for title
An assurance to the purchaser that the grantor has the very estate in quantity and quality which he purports to convey.
Covenantee
One in whose favor a covenant is made.
Covenantor
One who becomes bound to perform a covenant.
Covenants performed
Pleading. In Pennsylvania, the defendant may plead covenants performed to an action of covenant, and upon this plea, upon informal notice to the plaintiff, he may give anything in evidence which he might have pleaded.
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