Truce
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
An armistice; an agreement between belligerents to suspend hostilities for a time, but without terminating the war. Truce of God. A suspension which' the church, during the middle ages, secured, in private hostilities and warfare, during holidays and other fixed, times.
See Burr Ul.