Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Scots law, a pact or agreement between two or more persons to give or perform something.
- noun In Roman law, such a convention or agreement as did not fall within the number of those to which full effect was given by the law, and thus distinguished from
contractus .
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Examples
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The first (25 chapters) was destined for the monastery of Complutum, it has an appendix (called pactum), containing the formulae of consecration and the vows.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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One must hope that their watchword was ever "Verbum meum pactum."
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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The ultimate result he envisaged would not be a single world state (a civitas gentium) created by a single treaty (pactum pacis), but a peaceful union or federation (foedus pacificum) that “maintains itself, prevents wars, and steadily expands.”
The Great Experiment Strobe Talbott 2008
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Ideo quidam ad pactum cum Adam factum de pomo hec referunt.
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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Note 88: Vacarius, 13.3.3: "Ergo si necessaria fuit circumcisio infantibus, ne de populo suo perirent propter pactum quod fecerunt irritum, eadem ratione et baptismus hodie est necessarius eis." back
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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Note 82: Vacarius, 18: Sed infans, qui nondum erat, id est tempore pacti, nec fuisse intelligebatur, quomodo hoc pactum irritum fecit?
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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Et hoc non est ex mea culpa, sed ex tua, quia in Adam pactum meum irritum fecisti. back
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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Quia in Adam omnes peccaverunt et omnes pactum illud cum Adam factum irritum fecerunt, secundum Dominicam rationem, etiam si velis eam referre ad pactum circumcisionis, quia nichilominus, immo magis ad pactum prohibitionis pertinet, cum Adam factum, cum specialiter dicatur quod omnes infantes in Adam peccaverunt, et non similiter dicatur de Habraam. back
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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Martyrium autem quatuor fratrum nostrorum in illa ciuitate Thana fuit per istum modum; dum praedicti fratres fuerant in Ormes, fecerunt pactum cum vna naui vt nauigarent vsque Polumbrum, et violentèr deportati sunt vsque Thanam vbi sunt 15. domus
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Cum ergo aliquis fecerit pactum cum aliquo de filia accipienda, facit pater puellæ conuiuium, et illa fuagit ad consanguineos, vt ibi lateat: Tunc pater dicit, Ecce filia mea tua est, accipe eam vbicunque inueneris: Tunc ille quærit cum amicis suis, donec inueniat eam, et oportet, quod vi capiat eam et ducat eam quasi violenter ad domum.
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