Meanings
- not comparableobsoleteSettled by a pact or treaty; relating to pacts or treaties.
The aggression was in breach of national, moral, and pactitious faith […]
1821, John Woodward, “Opinion […] in the case of the St. Michaels and cargo, of Baltimore, vs. the king of Holland”, in John E. Hall, editor, The Journal of Jurisprudence, volume 1, page 3922 more examples
Pactitious rights and obligations may cease in various ways. In a conditional pact the obligation ceases when the condition becomes impossible. In any other pact, when the pactitious right is remitted. Pacts are dissolved when both parties remit their reciprocal pactitious rights: […]
1795, John Daniel Gros, Natural Principles of Rectitude […] A Systematic Treatise on Moral Philosophy, page 251The power given to Congress by the constitution to regulate commerce, cannot extend to that […] which can only be regulated by compact, or by the treaty making, or pactitious powers.
1796, Debates in the House of Representatives of the United States, During the First Session of the Fourth Congress, Part I. Upon the Constitutional Powers of the House with respect to Treaties, page 149
Origin
- Latinpactītius
- Englishpactitious
Borrowed from Latin pactītius, pactīcius.
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