Not all states recognize all of the traditional covenants listed above.
The similarity in the two bodies of law will become even more noticeable if, as has been proposed, American law comes to abandon its traditional distinctions between easements, profits, real covenants, and equitable servitudes and adopts instead, like the civil law, a general category of servitudes.
The meeting's statement of shared purpose, known as its covenant, calls for Baptists to focus on their traditional values, like "sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ," and to work together on social issues like fighting poverty.
This year, as China faces a vote by the International Olympic Committee in July on whether Beijing will be host for the 2008 Olympics, the Chinese government has offered a number of inducements -- including ratification of a United Nations rights covenant -- to persuade Washington to drop the traditional resolution.
There is some dispute among scholars as to when such features as the Mosaic Covenant actually emerged and as to which of the traditional 12 tribes of Israel entered Canaan at the end of the period of wandering in the desert.
Regret's death triggers discord among the races of the Covenant, leading to the Hierarchs giving the Brutes the Elites' traditional job of protecting them in the wake of the death.
This device allows the enforcement of restrictions on land use that neither fall within the traditional types of negative easements nor meet the traditional requirements of covenants that run with the land; such promises are enforceable against the successors in title to the land owned by the original promisors.
Notable American poet, Charles Upton, notes in the foreword that these documents -- letters, covenants, treaties -- which Morrow accesses "have largely been neglected by both traditional Muslim and modern western scholarship, and are practically unknown to the mass of believers".
Novak also accepted the traditional belief that God formed a unique relationship with Israel but maintained that God extends his covenant to the world and that the particularity of Israel's election is implicated in the general covenant with the world and vice versa.
But that covenant still means something to many Americans — including single moms, who have every reason to be cynical about traditional marriage.
