Run

A watercourse of a small size. 2 Bibb 354. The word is sometimes used interchangeably with creek. Watts v. Lindsey, 7 Wheat. (U. S.) 162, 5 L. Ed. 423.

n.

In American law. A watercourse of small size. Webb v. Bedford, 2 Bibb. (Ky.) 354.

v. To have currency or legal validity in a prescribed territory; as, the writ runs throughout the county. To have applicability or legal effect during a prescribed period of time; as, the statute of limitations has run against the claim. To foliow or accompany; to be attached to another thing in pursuing a prescribed course or direction; as, the covenant runs with the land.

To operate; to have or take effect; to pass; to follow; to go with, or accompany; to continue to be valid; to remain unpaid; to bear the name of the state or the people of the state as prosecutor. Running account: an open unsettled account, as distinguished from witha charter-party, for loading and unloading a vessel, and for other purposes. Kunning: with the land: v. Covenant.

A covenant is said to run with the land when either the liability to perform it, or the right to take advantage of it, passes to the assignee of that land. Thus, if A grants B a lease of the land for twenty-one years, and the lease, amongst other covenants, contains a covenant on the part of A for the quiet enjoyment of the land by B during the term, and also a covenant on the part of B to cultivate the land demised in a particular manner, and B afterwards assigns the land to C for the residue of the term, in this case the liability to perform the covenant made by B and the right to take advantage of the covenant made by A would devolve upon C as assignee of the land to which the covenants related; and in so doing they would be said to run with the land. (Noke v. Awder, Cro. Eliz. 436; Cockson v. Cock, Cro. Jac. 125; Spencer's Case, 1 Smith Lead. Cos. 22.) A covenant is said to run with the reversion when either the hability to perform or the right to take advantage of it passes to the assignee of that reversion. Thus, if A grants a lease of land to B for twenty-one years, and the lease, among other covenants, contains a covenant on the part of A for the quiet enjoyment of the land by B during the term, and also a covenant on the assigns the reversion in the land to C, in this case the liability to perform the covenant made by A, and the right to take advantage of the covenant made by B would devolve upon C as assignee of the reversion in the land to which the covenants related; and in so doing they would be said to run with the reversion. (See Noke «. Awder, Cro. Eliz. 436; Campbell v. Lewis, 3 B. ^ Aid. 392; Middlemore v. Goodale, Cro. Car. 503; Cockson v. Cock, Cro. Jac. 125; Spencer's Case, 1 Smith Lead. Cas. 22.) " Kunning," in a policy of insurance of a barge, " while running on the Hudson river," includes all that ordinarily would be comprehended by the business of a vessel in active employment, both while lying temporarily at a wharf, and while actually in motion. It describes the condition of a vessel commercially engaged, and may be deemed used by way of contrasting the difference between vessels laid up and out of use, and those making trips upon the water. St. Nicholas Ins. Co. v. Merchants', &c. Ins. Co., 18 N. Y. Supreme Ct. 108. Running days. In a charter-party allowing " twelve running days for each one hundred register tons " for loading the ship, means consecutive days. Crowell v. Barreda, 16 Gray, 471. Running accounts. The exception, in the Indiana statute of limitations, of running accounts between merchant and merchant was not intended to be limited to actions of account or for not accounting, or to cases in which such actions will lie. The language used differs materially from the English act, and requires a different construction. 'The term "running accounts," in the statute, means mutual accounts and reciprocal demands between the parties, which accounts and demands remain open and unsettled. Whenever the accounts and demands which occasion the suit are of that description, and are between merchant and merchant, the case, whether an action of account or for not accounting, would lie or not, must be considered as not limited by the statute. After accounts between merchant and merchant are closed, and a balance stated, they are no longer " running accounts," and the statute runs as to such balance. Brackenridge «. Baltzell, 1 Ind. 333.