covenant
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Covenant
in the texts
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.