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

Statuam pactum meum inter me et te fœdere sempiterno ... ut sim Deus tuus ...

From Pascal's Pensées by Pascal, Blaise

Thus the social compact is no longer a pactum subjectionis.

From Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism by Chinard, Gilbert

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

"The Dardanelles," said the Authority, "could easily be denationalized under a quadrilateral guarantee to be made a pars materia of the pactum foederis."

From Frenzied Fiction by Leacock, Stephen