Law. [f. COVENANT v. + -OR.] One who enters into a legal covenant; the party by whom the obligation expressed in the covenant is to be performed.
1649. W. Ball, Power of Kings, 8. Every Covenantor may … advise with Himselfe … as well as with the Councell of His Covenantee.
1767. Blackstone, Comm., II. 304. If the covenantor covenants for himself and his heirs, it is then a covenant real, and descends upon the heirs.
1887. Law Rep. 34 Ch. Div. 4. Necessary to give one covenantor a right through the covenantee as against other covenantors.
