covenant
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Covenant · the covenants · the covenants that rouse a man · ʻuhūd · العهود
spoken of as
1 expressionThe Covenants“ʻuhūd”1 mention
Adab al-wazīr (Arabic)
As for the covenants that rouse a man, I shall now speak them, hoping that acceptance may go together with what I say.
in the texts
Adab al-wazīr
The ʻahd/ʻuhūd, the covenant-counsel genre that gives this chapter its title and structure, both in al-Māwardī's own voice and in the quoted covenant of Bahrām Gūr.
As for the covenants that rouse a man, I shall now speak them, hoping that acceptance may go together with what I say.
And I have set out for you in brief, O vizier, what will remind you if your practice encompasses it, and will warn you if you are heedless of it;
(The Covenants, continued)
Stromata
The covenant established by God, identified in the passage with the Lord himself.
And Moses is plainly seen calling the Lord a covenant:
The Genius of the Common Law
A medieval writ for enforcing sealed agreements, mistakenly connected by Blackstone to the later action of Assumpsit.
Blackstone conjectured that the action of Assumpsit, the regular modern action of contract, was the action on the case answering to the thirteenth-century writ of Covenant:
The Law of Torts
An old form of action on a sealed instrument, grouped among the praecipe writs.
To this class belong the writ of right and other proprietary real actions, also debt, detinue account, and covenant.