Pact
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In civil law
An agreement made by two or more persons on the same subject, in order to form some engagement, or to dissolve or modify one already made. Conventio est duorum in idem placitum consensus de re solvenda, id est facienda vel praestanda.
Dig. 2. 14; Clef des Lois Rom.; Ayliffe, Pand. 558; Merlin, Repert, "Pacte."