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Article :: Article (v. i.) To agree by articles; to stipulate; to bargain; to covenant.

Covenant :: Covenant (n.) A form of action for the violation of a promise or contract under seal.

Stipulation :: Stipulation (n.) That which is stipulated, or agreed upon; that which is definitely arranged or contracted; an agreement; a covenant; a contract or bargain; also, any particular article, item, or condition, in a mutual agreement; as, the stipulations of the allied powers to furnish each his contingent of troops..

Ark :: Ark (n.) The oblong chest of acacia wood, overlaid with gold, which supported the mercy seat with its golden cherubs, and occupied the most sacred place in the sanctuary. In it Moses placed the two tables of stone containing the ten commandments. Called also the Ark of the Covenant..

Indissoluble :: Indissoluble (a.) Incapable of being rightfully broken or dissolved; perpetually binding or obligatory; firm; stable, as, an indissoluble league or covenant..

Sacrament :: Sacrament (n.) The pledge or token of an oath or solemn covenant; a sacred thing; a mystery.

Covenant :: Covenant (v. t.) To grant or promise by covenant.

Conventicle :: Conventicle (n.) An assembly for religious worship; esp., such an assembly held privately, as in times of persecution, by Nonconformists or Dissenters in England, or by Covenanters in Scotland; -- often used opprobriously, as if those assembled were heretics or schismatics..

Reentry :: Reentry (n.) A resuming or retaking possession of what one has lately foregone; -- applied especially to land; the entry by a lessor upon the premises leased, on failure of the tenant to pay rent or perform the covenants in the lease..

Quitclaim :: Quitclaim (n.) A release or relinquishment of a claim; a deed of release; an instrument by which some right, title, interest, or claim, which one person has, or is supposed to have, in or to an estate held by himself or another, is released or relinquished, the grantor generally covenanting only against persons who claim under himself..

Quitclaim :: Quitclaim (v. t.) To release or relinquish a claim to; to release a claim to by deed, without covenants of warranty against adverse and paramount titles..

Contract :: Contract (v. i.) To make an agreement; to covenant; to agree; to bargain; as, to contract for carrying the mail..

Covenant :: Covenant (v. i.) To agree (with); to enter into a formal agreement; to bind one's self by contract; to make a stipulation.

Promise :: Promise (v. t.) To engage to do, give, make, or to refrain from doing, giving, or making, or the like; to covenant; to engage; as, to promise a visit; to promise a cessation of hostilities; to promise the payment of money..

Subscribe :: Subscribe (v. t.) To sign with one's own hand; to give consent to, as something written, or to bind one's self to the terms of, by writing one's name beneath; as, parties subscribe a covenant or contract; a man subscribes a bond..

Revocable :: Revocable (a.) Capable of being revoked; as, a revocable edict or grant; a revocable covenant..

Warranter :: Warranter (n.) One who assures, or covenants to assure; one who contracts to secure another in a right, or to make good any defect of title or quality; one who gives a warranty; a guarantor; as, the warranter of a horse..

Faithless :: Faithless (a.) Not observant of promises or covenants.

Warranty :: Warranty (n.) A covenant real, whereby the grantor of an estate of freehold and his heirs were bound to warrant and defend the title, and, in case of eviction by title paramount, to yield other lands of equal value in recompense. This warranty has long singe become obsolete, and its place supplied by personal covenants for title. Among these is the covenant of warranty, which runs with the land, and is in the nature of a real covenant..

Abrahamic :: Abrahamic (a.) Pertaining to Abraham, the patriarch; as, the Abrachamic covenant..

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