Crossword clues for treaties
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Treaty \Trea"ty\, n.; pl. Treaties. [OE. tretee, F. trait['e], LL. tractatus; cf. L. tractatus a handling, treatment, consultation, tractate. See Treat, and cf. Tractate.]
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The act of treating for the adjustment of differences, as for forming an agreement; negotiation. ``By sly and wise treaty.''
--Chaucer.He cast by treaty and by trains Her to persuade.
--Spenser. An agreement so made; specifically, an agreement, league, or contract between two or more nations or sovereigns, formally signed by commissioners properly authorized, and solemnly ratified by the several sovereigns, or the supreme power of each state; an agreement between two or more independent states; as, a treaty of peace; a treaty of alliance.
A proposal tending to an agreement. [Obs.]
--Shak.A treatise; a tract. [Obs.]
--Sir T. Browne.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of treaty English)
Usage examples of "treaties".
The bravest usurpers were compelled, by the perplexity of their situation, to conclude ignominious treaties with the common enemy, to purchase with oppressive tributes the neutrality or services of the Barbarians, and to introduce hostile and independent nations into the heart of the Roman monarchy.
He despised the trophies of a Gothic victory, and was satisfied that the rapacious Barbarians of the Danube would be restrained from any future violation of the faith of treaties by the terror of his name, and the additional fortifications with which he strengthened the Thracian and Illyrian frontiers.
The danger apprehended, is it that, the treaties remaining valid, the clause guarantying their West India islands will engage us in the war?
To renounce or suspend the treaties therefore is a necessary act of neutrality.
Is such the character of that now apprehended from our treaties with France?
But their government, when we allied ourselves to it, was a perfect despotism, civil & military, yet the treaties were made in that very state of things, & therefore that danger can furnish no just cause.
Consequently if this be the danger apprehended, it is not yet certain enough to authorize us in sound morality to declare, at this moment, the treaties null.
A second limitation on our right of releasing ourselves is that we are to do it from so much of the treaties only as is bringing great & inevitable danger on us, & not from the residue, allowing to the other party a right at the same time to determine whether on our non compliance with that part they will declare the whole void.
The only part of the treaties which can really lead us into danger is the clause of guarantee.
Vattel lays down, in fact, the same doctrine, that treaties continue obligatory, notwithstanding a change of government by the will of the other party, that to oppose that will would be a wrong, & that the ally remains an ally notwithstanding the change.
Among political bodies, sovereigns, who acknolege no superior on earth, treaties are the only means of adjusting their different pretensions, of establishing a rule, to know on what to count, on what to depend.
But treaties are but vain words if nations do not consider them as respectable engagements, as rules, inviolable for sovereigns, & sacred through the whole earth.
She changes her government, declares it shall be a Republic, prepares a form of Republic extremely free, and in the mean time is governing herself as such, and it is proposed that America shall declare the treaties void because `it may say with truth that it would not have allied itself with that nation, if it had been under the present form of it's government!
Vadomair ^19 was the only prince of the Alemanni whom he esteemed or feared and while the subtle Barbarian affected to observe the faith of treaties, the progress of his arms threatened the state with an unseasonable and dangerous war.
Neither oaths nor treaties could restrain the boundless ambition of Maximus.