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‖ pacta sunt servanda, phr.|ˈpækta sʊnt sɜːˈvænda|
[L., lit. ‘agreements must be kept’: cf. Cicero De Officiis iii. xcii pacta et promissa semperne servanda sint; Digesta Iustiniani ii. xiv ideo servandum erit pactum conventum.]
The principle, esp. in international law, that agreements are binding and inviolable.
1855R. Phillimore Commentaries upon Internat. Law II. v. vi. 56 Pacta sunt servanda is the pervading maxim of International, as it was of Roman jurisprudence. 1925E. Satow in Cambr. Hist. Jrnl. I. 295 (heading) Pacta sunt servanda or International Guarantee. 1939E. H. Carr Twenty Years' Crisis xi. 232 War writers..have attempted to treat the rule pacta sunt servanda not merely as a fundamental rule of international law, but as the corner⁓stone of international society. 1945J. L. Kunz in Amer. Jrnl. Internat. Law XXXIX. 197 Pacta sunt servanda means the institution, by general international law, of a special procedure—the treaty procedure—for the creation of international norms... Valid treaty norms must be kept, but they can, by appropriate procedures, be revised. Pacta sunt servanda means the inviolability, not the unchangeability, of treaties. 1958Reports of Judgments (Internat. Court of Justice) 121 The maxim pacta sunt servanda is of special significance in considering this contention of the Government of Sweden. 1962Times 27 June 8/6 The ordinary rule was that contracts were to be enforced—pacta sunt servanda. 1973I. M. Sinclair Vienna Convention on Law of Treaties iii. 53 Article 26 of the Convention reproduces, in lapidary language, the basic principle pacta sunt servanda, designated by the Commission as ‘the fundamental principle of the law of treaties’. |