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  2. Covenant (law) - Wikipedia

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    The covenant may be negative or affirmative. A negative covenant is one in which property owners are unable to perform a specific activity, such as block a scenic view. An affirmative covenant is one in which property owners must actively perform a specific activity, such as keeping the lawn tidy or paying homeowner's association dues for the ...

  3. Covenant marriage - Wikipedia

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    Covenant marriage is a legally distinct kind of marriage in three states of the United States (Arizona, Arkansas, and Louisiana), in which the marrying spouses agree to obtain pre-marital counseling and accept more limited grounds for later seeking divorce (the least strict of which being that the couple lives apart from each other for two years).

  4. Negative and positive rights - Wikipedia

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    The notion of positive and negative rights may also be applied to liberty rights. To take an example involving two parties in a court of law: Adrian has a negative right to x against Clay, if and only if Clay is prohibited to act upon Adrian in some way regarding x.

  5. Covenant - Wikipedia

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    Covenant (law), a promise to engage in or refrain from a specified action (including restrictive covenant, a restriction on the use of property) Covenant marriage, a marriage contract that does not allow for no-fault divorce

  6. Putative marriage - Wikipedia

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    Putative spouse status is a remedial doctrine designed to protect the reasonable expectations of someone who acts on the belief that they are married, and generally entitled a putative spouse to the rights a legal spouse would have for the period from the putative marriage until discovery that the marriage was not legal.

  7. 'Marriage is a covenant, not a contract' - AOL

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    A strong foundation in a relationship or marriage must be built with God at the center parishioners were told at the Sunday morning worship service at Open Door Ministries. 'Marriage is a covenant ...

  8. Types of marriages - Wikipedia

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    The type, functions, and characteristics of marriage vary from culture to culture, and can change over time. In general there are two types: civil marriage and religious marriage, and typically marriages employ a combination of both (religious marriages must often be licensed and recognized by the state, and conversely civil marriages, while not sanctioned under religious law, are nevertheless ...

  9. Default (finance) - Wikipedia

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    Negative covenants may be continuous or incurrence-based. Violations of negative covenants are rare compared to violations of affirmative covenants. With most debt (including corporate debt, mortgages and bank loans) a covenant is included in the debt contract which states that the total amount owed becomes immediately payable on the first ...