COVENANT

In practice. The name of a common-law form of action e/lJ contractu, which lies for the recovery of damages for breach of a covenant, or contract under seal. Stickney v. Stickney, 21 N. H. 68. In the law of contract■, An agreement, convention, or promise of two or more parties, by deed in writing, signed, sealed, and delivered, by which either of the parties pledges himself to the other that sometll~ is either done or shall be done, or stipulates for the truth of certain facts. Sabin v. Hamilton, 2 Ark. 490; Com. v. Robfoson, 1 WDtts {Pa.) 160; Kent v. Edmondston, 49 N. C. 529. An agreem~n.t between two or more parties, reduced to writing and executed by a seal- [s. 299]