Compact
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
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 or forborne. Chesapeake & O. Canal Co. v. Baltimore & O. It. Co.., 4 Gill & J. (Md.) L The terms "compact" and "contract" are synonymous.
Green v. Biddle, 8 Wheat 1, 92, 5 In Ed. 547.