pactum

Example Sentences

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Then, as he did not sign the compact with Satan, he cannot be charged with pactum diabolicum implicitum.

From Told by the Death's Head A Romantic Tale by J?kai, M?r

And honourably did he fulfil this nudum pactum, for he became a most exemplary bookworm, burning his midnight candle at both ends in the endeavour to cram his mind with belles lettres.

From A Bayard From Bengal Being some account of the Magnificent and Spanking Career of Chunder Bindabun Bhosh,... by Jabberjee, Hurry Bungsho

At the end of the eighteenth century Lord Mansfield came very near establishing it in our law by his doctrine that no promise made as a business transaction could be nudum pactum.

From An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law by Pound, Roscoe

Ante oculos nova se rerum fert undique imago: Deletas veterum leges, renovataque cernit Jura homini, et pactum divino sanguine fœdus; Edomitam mortem, raptique arcana sepulchri, Perpetuamq. diem, atq. æterni vulnera leti.

From Gustavus Vasa and other poems by Walker, William Sidney

Thus the social compact is no longer a pactum subjectionis.

From Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism by Chinard, Gilbert