Covenants are of things possible and future.

Men are freed from them by performance, or forgiveness, which is restitution of liberty.

He pronounces covenants extorted by fear to be binding alike in the state of mere nature and in commonwealths, if once entered into.

A former covenant makes void a later.

Any covenant not to defend one's self from force by force is always void; as said above, there is no transference possible of right to defend one's self from death, wounds, imprisonment, &c.