2. Verb. (third-person singular of compact) ¹
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Definition of Compacts
1. compact [v] - See also: compact
Lexicographical Neighbors of Compacts
Literary usage of Compacts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The United States and the States Under the Constitution by Christopher Stuart Patterson (1888)
"What compacts are permitted, and what are forbidden. 86. Section 10 of article I of
... This constitutional prohibition forbids compacts between a state and ..."
2. Draft Outlines of an International Code by David Dudley Field (1872)
"Informal compacts may be made. 204. Ratification of written compacts made by ...
Informai compacts may be made. 203. compacts, other than treaties, ..."
3. The Constitutional Law of the United States by Westel Woodbury Willoughby (1910)
"compacts between the States. The control of international relations being
exclusively vested in the Federal Government, it necessarily follows that the ..."
4. Institutes of Natural Law: Being the Substance of a Course of Lectures on by Thomas Rutherforth (1832)
"compacts between nations at peace, or nations at tear.— XXIII. Equal and unequal
compacts of nations.—XXIV. compacts of the same matter with the law of ..."
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