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nudum pactum

[ noo-duhm pak-tuhm, nyoo- ]

noun

, Law.
  1. a simple contract or promise involving no legal considerations.


nudum pactum

/ ˈnjuːdʊm ˈpæktʊm /

noun

  1. law an agreement made without consideration and void unless made under seal
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of nudum pactum1

From Latin nūdum pāctum literally, “bare pact”
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Word History and Origins

Origin of nudum pactum1

Latin: nude (sense 3b) agreement
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Example Sentences

Otherwise, it would be simply a nudum pactum—a vow without consideration.

This made the Constitution a nudum pactum, a contract without a consideration, a Democratic promise, a wall of mist, and left every State free to destroy at will the fabric of American Government—the fabric reared by our fathers through years of toil and blood.

Who shall decide the question of nudum pactum or not?

And honourably did he fulfil this nudum pactum, for he became a most exemplary bookworm, burning his midnight candle at both ends in the endeavour to cram his mind with belles lettres.

Doubtless there was no consideration for the forgiveness, it was nudum pactum, or there may have been an implied contract that the servant should do unto others as he had been done by, but I rather expect the lord and his advisers only considered the justice of their act rather than its technical legal accuracy.

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