pactitiousとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

pactitious (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Settled by a pact or treaty; relating to pacts or treaties.
   • 1795, John Daniel Gros, Natural Principles of Rectitude […] A Systematic Treatise on Moral Philosophy, page 251:

     Pactitious rights and obligations may cease in various ways.
     In a conditional pact the obligation ceases when the condition becomes impossible.
     In any other pact, when the pactitious right is remitted.
     Pacts are dissolved when both parties remit their reciprocal pactitious rights: […]

   • 1796, Debates in the House of Representatives of the United States, During the First Session of the Fourth Congress, Part I. Upon the Constitutional Powers of the House with respect to Treaties, page 149:

     The power given to Congress by the constitution to regulate commerce, cannot extend to that […] which can only be regulated by compact, or by the treaty making, or pactitious powers.

   • 1821, John Woodward, “Opinion […] in the case of the St. Michaels and cargo, of Baltimore, vs. the king of Holland”, in John E. Hall, editor, The Journal of Jurisprudence, volume 1, page 392:

     The aggression was in breach of national, moral, and pactitious faith […]