Pacta Dant Legeivi Contractui

Agreements give the law to the contract. Halk. Max. 118. PACTA PRIVATA JURI PUBLICO DErogare non possunt. Private contracts cannot derogate from the public law. 7 Coke, 23. PACTA QUAE CONTRA LEGES CONSTItutionesque vel contra bones mores flunt, nuliam vim habere, indubitati juris est. It is indubitable law that contracts against the laws or good morals have no force. Code, 2. 3. 6; Broom, Leg. Max. (3d London Ed.) 620. PACTA QUAE TURPEIVI CAUSAIVI CONtinent non sunt observanda. Contracts founded upon an immoral consideration are not to be observed. Dig. 2. 14. 27. 4; 2 Pet. (U. S.) 539; Broom, Leg. Max. (3d London Ed.) 658. PACT 10 (Lat. from pangere, to strike).

In civil law. A bargaining or agreeing of which pactum (the agreement itself) was the result. Calv. Lex. It is used, however, as the synonjon of pactum.