Compact
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
An agreement or contract. Usually applied to conventions between nations or sovereign states. A compact is a mutual consent of parties concerned respecting some property or right that is the object of the stipulation, or something that is to be done orforborne.
4 Gill &J.1.
The terms “compact” and “contract” are synonymous.
8 Wheat. 1, 92.