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Definition of Truces
1. truce [v] - See also: truce
Lexicographical Neighbors of Truces
Literary usage of Truces
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. International Law Chiefly as Interpreted and Applied by the United States by Charles Cheney Hyde (1922)
"These truces may be verbal or written. In general the agreement consists in the
letter of one general proposing a truce for a certain purpose, ..."
2. A History of the Law of Nations by Thomas Alfred Walker (1899)
"truces are undertakings for the mutual cessation of truces and hostilities ...
truces in general consequences. bind from the moment of their establishment. ..."
3. The Principles of International Law by Thomas Joseph Lawrence (1895)
"Lastly we must give a brief outline of the law of truces and Armistices. ...
There is some difference of opinion and usage as to the terms to be ap- truces ..."
4. The Rights of War and Peace: Including the Law of Nature and of Nations by Hugo Grotius, Archibald Colin Campbell (1901)
"truces of an intermediate denomination between peace and war — Origin of the word
... truces are conventions, by which, even during the continuance of war, ..."
5. A Treatise of Universal Jurisprudence by John Penford Thomas (1829)
"truces should be kept according to the rational meaning of them. ... Subjects are
bound, from the moment of notification, to observe truces; ..."
6. Lancaster and York: A Century of English History (A.D. 1399-1485) by James Henry Ramsay (1892)
"The year ended with short truces concluded with France for Picardy and Guienne.
The truces were signed at Gloucester (7th Dec. ..."
7. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent (1901)
"Of truces. — A truce or suspension of arms does not terminate the war, but it is
one of the commercia belli which suspends its operations. ..."
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