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Covenant for title
Covenant for titleAn assurance to the purchaser that the grantor has the very estate in quantity and quality which he purports to convey. RELATED TERMS-------------------------------------- Assurance 1) Com. law. Insurance. 2) Conveyancing. This is called a common assurance. But the term assurances includes, in an enlarged sense, all instruments which dispose of property, whether they be the grants of private persons, or not; such are fines and recoveries, and private acts of the legislature. Purchaser contracts. A buyer, a vendee. Grantor He by whom a grant is made. Estate A right or interest in property or the property of a deceased person. Quantity Pleading. That which is susceptible of measure. Quality 1) Persons. The state or condition of a person. 2) pleading. That which distinguishes one thing from another of the same kind. Convey To transfer property to someone by selling it or by other means. SIMILAR TERMS-------------------------------------- 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 A covenant usually contained in a lease, by which the lessor covenants or agrees that the tenant shall quietly enjoy the premises leased. 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. PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS-------------------------------------- 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 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 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. We thank you for using the Juridical Dictionary to search for Covenant for title. If you have a better definition for Covenant for title than the one presented here, please let us know by making use of the suggest a term option. This definition of Covenant for title may be disputed by other professionals. 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