covenant

7 definitions • 9 examples

a formal agreement or promise between two or more people:

When a covenant is made, then to break it is unjust.

restrictive covenant The contract contained a restrictive covenant against building on the land.

a formal agreement to pay a fixed amount of money regularly, especially to a charity

to make a formal agreement or promise:

We covenant together to support each other.

She was accused of covenanting with the devil.

to make a formal agreement to pay a fixed amount of money regularly, especially to a charity:

be covenanted to Five percent of our profits are covenanted to charity.

The business will covenant 100% of net profits to be reinvested back into community projects.

a formal agreement between countries, organizations, or people

a part of a formal written agreement in which it is stated what must or must not be done, or in which someone promises to do or pay something:

The lease contains a covenant that no animals can be kept on the property.

Any loss of rent may be claimed as damages for breach of covenant (= failure to do as promised).

to officially agree to do or not do something:

If business premises suffer serious fire damage the landlord usually covenants to reinstate the premises.