Covenant (disambiguation)
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The word covenant can refer to:
- An agreement between a deity and its followers, especially in Judaism known as a Brit in Hebrew, and Christianity. See Covenant (theological term)
- A growing religious hate group that is growing slowly in the United States. Their symbol is a mix between a Christian cross and the National Socialist swastika.
- The name of a city in the computer game Myth.
- In the Halo video game franchise for the Xbox, The Covenant is a religious alliance of alien races.
- Two parties:
- Covenant (Al Ahd, Morocco)
- Covenant of '54 (Ahd 54, Algeria)
- Thomas Covenant is a fictional character whose tale is told in a series of fantasy novels by Stephen R. Donaldson; see The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever.
- Covenant, in its most general sense, is a word for a solemn contract or similar undertaking.
- Under the common law a covenant was distinguished from an ordinary contract by the presence of a seal. Because the presence of a seal indicated an unusual solemnity in the promises made in a covenant, the common law would enforce a covenant even in the absence of consideration, or quid pro quo.
- In this sense, covenants are more or less obsolete in the American, England, and other jurisdictions that use the tradition of common law; seals no longer have much significance, especially after the adoption of reforms that affected contracts, such as the Uniform Commercial Code which allows contracts to be formed with fewer formalities.
- The word covenant is also given to certain privately arranged rules that attach to specific tracts of real property; usually these state restrictions on how the land can be used, and thus are generally known as restrictive covenants.
- Historically, certain treaties and compacts have been given the name of covenant, most notably the Solemn League and Covenant that marked the Covenanters, a Protestant political organisation important in the history of Scotland. Other important documents that have been given the name covenant include the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Palestinian National Covenant.
- The word is also given religious meaning by its use in Biblical interpretation; for more see Covenant (theological term). Covenant theology in particular focuses on various covenants between God and Israel, and between God and the Christian church; Dispensationalism, on the other hand,uses the terminology in a different sense, although the imagery of covenants is maintained.
- A Swedish EBM/Futurepop band called Covenant, which is not to be confused with the Norwegian band The Kovenant