Truce

TRUCE, intern. law. An agreement between belligerent parties, by which they mutually engage to forbear all acts of hostility against each other for some time, the war still continuing. Burlamaqui's N. & P. Law, part 4, c. 11, §1.

Expanded Legal Definition of PeremptoryPerfidy The intentional violation of a promise or of some trust, such as misusing a flag of truce during war in order to facilitate an attack.

The concordats are of the nature of truces in the perennial conflict between the spiritual and secular powers, and imply in principle no surrender of the claims of the one to those of the other.

A one year truce on the expansion of armaments, later extended by a few months, was proposed at the start of the conference.

See also: Violation, Were, Court, Cause, State