pactum

Example Sentences

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Thus the social compact is no longer a pactum subjectionis.

From Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism by Chinard, Gilbert

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

From Pascal's Pensées by Pascal, Blaise

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

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

Who shall decide the question of nudum pactum or not?

From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by School, A Sexton of the Old