Definition
| • | 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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