Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The party to whom the promise in a covenant is made.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The party to a covenant to whom the performance of its obligation is expressed to be due.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The person in whose favor a covenant is made.
Examples
“The judges gave their services for nothing, and, for once, released from all their own trammels, set to work to do substantial justice between landlord and tenant, personalty and realty, the life interest and the remainder, covenantor and covenantee, after a fashion which excited the admiration and won the confidence of the whole City.”
Andrew Marvell
“Where either by tradition or good sense the burden of the obligation would be said, elliptically, to fall on the land of the covenantor, the creation of such a burden is in theory a grant or transfer of a partial interest in [405] that land to the covenantee.”
“Pakenham brought covenant as heir of the covenantee against a prior, for breach of a covenant made by the defendant's predecessor with the plaintiff's great-grandfather, that the prior and convent should sing every week in a chapel in his manor, for him and his servants.”
“Some have supposed this privity to be tenure; some, an interest of the covenantee in the land of the covenantor; and so on.”
“Only privies in estate with the original covenantee can have the benefit of covenants for title.”
“It was held that he could not recover, because he was not privy in estate with the original covenantee.”
“If the covenant was to be approached from the side of contract, the heir was party to it as representing the covenantee.”
“It also appears that the plaintiff was trying to stand on two grounds; first, privity, as descendant and assign of the covenantee; second, that the service was attached to the manor by covenant or by prescription, and that he could maintain covenant as tenant of the manor, from whichever source the duty arose.”
“In general the benefit of covenants which cannot be likened to grants, and the burden of which does not fall on land, is confined to the covenantee and those who sustain his persona, namely, his executor or heir.”
“It has already been shown that covenants for title, like warranties, went only to successors of the original covenantee.”
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