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Definition of Pacts
1. pact [n] - See also: pact
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pacts
Literary usage of Pacts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Systematic and Historical Exposition of Roman Law in the Order of a Code by William Alexander Hunter, Gaius, John Ashton Cross (1897)
"pacts ENFORCED BY ACTION. A simple agreement (pactum) could not originate a contract.
It was used to dissolve a contract, or to vary and amplify the usual ..."
2. The Institutes: A Textbook of the History and System of Roman Private Law by Rudolf Sohm, Bernhard Erwin Grüber (1907)
"pacts. A pactum, or pact, is an informal declaration of consensus. ... The principle
applied to pacts of this kind—so-called nuda pacta—was that they gave ..."
3. The American Journal of International Law by American Society of International Law (1907)
"Latvian and Estonian pacts, it may be concluded that the same rights and duties
arise from the neutrality clauses of the four pacts for all the contracting ..."
4. Europe: Dimensions of Peace by Björn Hettne (1988)
"Military pacts and the war system Originating in the ideological climate of the
... Thus, military pacts with an ideological underpinning have two major ..."
5. The Elements of Morality, Including Polity by William Whewell (1864)
"the leading distinction of pacts from Innominate Contracts was that they were
... These were rto/hed pacts. As opposed to these, were the informal nude ..."
6. A Law Dictionary Containing Definitions of the Terms and Phrases of American by Henry Campbell Black (1910)
""The division of conventions into contracts nnd pacts was important in-the Roman
law. The former were such conventions as already, by the older civil law, ..."
7. Analysis of M. Ortolan's Institutes of Justinian: Including the History and by Thomas Lambert Mears, Joseph-Louis-Elzéar Ortolan (1876)
"pacts. In strictness, any agreement (pactum, pactio, ... like all other pacts,
could only give rise to an exception, hence it was only available for the ..."
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