noun. The party by whom the promise in a covenant is to be carried out.

noun. In law, that party to a covenant, agreement, or contract by whom the obligation expressed in it is to be performed.

noun. The party who makes a covenant.

noun. The party who makes a covenant.

"The judges gave their services for nothing, and, for once, released from all their own trammels, set to work to do substantial justice between landlord and tenant, personalty and realty, the life interest and the remainder, covenantor and covenantee, after a fashion which excited the admiration and won the confidence of the whole City."