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Covenant for quiet enjoyment






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.

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Covenant
A 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.

Lease
A special kind of contract between a property owner and a person wanting temporary enjoyment and use of the property, in exchange for rent paid to the property owner. Where the property is land, a building, or parts of either, the property owner is called a landlord and the person that contracts to receive the temporary enjoyment and use is called a tenant.

Lessor
Contracts He who grants a lease.

Tenant
Estates. One who holds or possesses lands or tenements by any kind of title, either in fee, for life, for years, or at will

Premises
1) That which is put before. The word has several significations; sometimes it means the statements which have been before made; as, I act upon these premises; in this sense, this word may comprise a variety of subjects, having no connexion among themselves. 2) Estates. Lands and tenements are usually, called premises, when particularly spoken of; as, the premises will be sold without reserve. 3) Conveyancing. That part in the beginning of a deed, in which are set forth the names of the parties, with their titles ana additions, and in which are recited such deeds, agreements, or matters of fact, as are necessary to explain the reasons upon which the contract then entered into is founded; and it is here also the consideration on which it is made, is set down, and the certainty of the thing granted. 4) Equity pleading. That part of a bill usually denominated the stating part of the bill. It contains a narrative of the facts and circumstances of the plaintiff's case, and the wrongs of which he complains, and the names of the persons by whom done, and against whom he seeks redress.



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Covenant
A 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.

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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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
A 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.

Covenant for quiet enjoyment

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.

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