166, 26 N. E. 198.—Covenant to convey. <A covenant by which the covemantor agrees to convey to the covenantee a certain estate, under certain circumstances.— Covenant to stand seised. <A conveyance mee arts to the case where a person seised of land in possession, reversion, or vested remainder, proposes to convey it to his avife, child. or kinsman. In its terms it consists of a covenant by him, in consideration of his natural love and affection, to-stand seised of the land to the use of the intended transferee. Before the statute of uses this would merey have raised a use in favor of the covenantee; but by that act this use is converted into the legal estate, and the covenant therefore operates as a conveyance of the land to the covenantee. It is now almost obsolete. 1 Steph. Comm. 532; Williams, Seis. 145; French v. French. 3 N. H. 261; Jackson v. Swart, 20 Johns. (N. Y.) 85.