Negative Covenant
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
One in which the covenanlor binds himself not te do or perform a specified act or thing. prohibited from doing something otherwise lawful upon his estate, because it will affect the dominant estate, (as interrupting the light and air from the latter by building on the former.) 2 Washb. Real Prop. 301; 70 N.Y.
447.