Truce
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In International law. An agreement between belligerent parties by which they mutually engage to forbear all acts of hostility against each other for some time, the war still continuing.
Burlam.
Nat. Law, pt.
4, c. 11, s 1.
Truces are of several kinds, — general, extending to all the territories and dominions of both parties, and particular, restrained to particular places, as, for example, by sea, and not by land, etc.
Burlam.
Nat. Law, pt.
4, c. 11, s 5.
They are also absolute, indeterminate, and general; or limited and determined to certain things; for example, to bury the dead.
Id. See 1 Kent, Comm. 159; Halleck, Int. Law, 654; Wheaton, Int. Law, 682.