Compact

An agreement A contract between parties, which creates obligations and rights capable of being enforced, and contemplated as such between the parties, In their distinct and independent characters. Story, Const b.

3, c. o; Rutherf.

Inst b.

2, c. 6, § 1.

The parties may be nations, states, or individuals; but the constitution of the United States declares that "no state shall, without the consent of congress, enter into agreement or compact with another state, or with a foreign power."

See Marlatt v. Silk, 11 Pet. (U. S.) l, 9 L. Ed. <\<)<j: Poole v. Fl< 11 Pet (U. S.) 1S5, 9 L. lA. 680; Gn Biddle, 8 Wheat. (U. S.) 1, 5 L. Ed. 547.