Covenants in United States

Practical Information

Note: Some of this information was last updated in 1982

Agreements of legal validity between two or more persons to do or to refrain from doing some act, or that a given state of facts exists or does not exist. Covenants may arise by implication of law or from the conduct of the parties and may be divided into two classes: (1) personal covenants, and (2) covenants running with the land, known as restrictive covenants. See Covenant of Title, below.

Covenants in Deeds

See Covenants in Deeds here.

Covenants of Title

See Covenants of Title here

(Revised by Ann De Vries)

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Covenants in State Statute Topics

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Resources

Further Reading

• Information about Covenants in the Gale Encyclopedia of American Law.

Covenants Running With The Land in the context of Real Estate

Resurces

See Also

• Running With The Land