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Pactum

A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

I. In the civil law. A pact; an agreement or convention without specific name, and without consideration, which, however, might, in its nature, produce a civil obligation. Pactum corvinum de hs Breditate viventis: a crow-like bargain for the inheritance of a living person. Pactum de non petendo: an agreement not to sue.