PACTIONS

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  PACTIONS, International law. When contracts between nations are to be 
  performed by a single act, and their execution is at an end at once, they 
  are not called treaties, but agreements, conventions or pactions. 1 Bouv. 
  Inst. n. 100.