Meaning & use
Paction
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A pact, agreement, or bargain made between parties, chiefly in Scots law and archaic English.
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The two clans sealed a paction to end decades of feuding.
Under the old paction, both landowners agreed to share the water rights.
A note on using this word
"Paction" survives mainly in Scottish legal terminology, though it shares the same Latin root, pactio, as the more familiar word "pact."
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