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A formal agreement, league, or contract, between two or more nations or sovereigns, formally signed and solemnly ratified by the supreme power or each state. Treaties are of various kinds, as for regulating trade, for forming alliances offencive and defensive, for making peace, etc; the document embodying such an agreement. (From Webster's New Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language Unabridged, 2nd ed., 1971) |