Definition of Treaty

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Treaty

The act of treating for the adjustment of differences, as for forming an agreement; negotiation.

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.

A treatise; a tract.

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Treaty Quotations

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
Plato

Only seven years ago we made a treaty by which we were assured that the buffalo country should be left to us forever. Now they threaten to take that from us also.
Sitting Bull

What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
Sitting Bull

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
Otto von Bismarck

The soldiers did go away and their towns were torn down; and in the Moon of Falling Leaves (November), they made a treaty with Red Cloud that said our country would be ours as long as grass should grow and water flow.
Black Elk

The United States have fulfilled in good faith all their treaty stipulations with the Indian tribes, and have in every other instance insisted upon a like performance of their obligations.
Martin Van Buren

Occasionally we have to interpret an international treaty - one, perhaps, affecting airlines and liability for injury to passengers or damage to goods. Then, of course, we have to look to the precedents of other member nations in resolving issues.
Sandra Day O'Connor

No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.
Sophocles

We are going to sign a treaty with Mexico. We are competing internationally. We need another international airport for international cargo, international travel, international businesses.
Richard M. Daley

In case of war, a treaty would have to be made at the end of the war.
Townsend Harris

Treaty Translations

treaty in Dutch is verdrag, traktaat, verhandeling
treaty in German is Staatsvertrag, Vertrag, Vertrag
treaty in Latin is pactum, pax pacis
treaty in Portuguese is tratado
treaty in Spanish is tratado

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