Luther assails the habit of supernatural grace and replaces the doctrine of an essential order of things by the arbitrary pactum Dei.
Legally it is a pactum de contrahendo, or promise for future joining in marriage, which may be dissolved at the pleasure of either party.
But such punctationes must not be confounded either with a preliminary treaty or with a so-called pactum de contrahendo.
A pactum de contrahendo requires likewise the mutual consent of the parties.
The difference between punctationes and a pactum de contrahendo is, that the latter stipulates an obligation of the parties to settle the respective points by a treaty, whereas the former does not.
Through life, the motto which, doubtless by his own command, was afterwards inscribed upon his tomb, was his constant rule: Pactum serva.
Thus the social compact is no longer a pactum subjectionis.
Then, as he did not sign the compact with Satan, he cannot be charged with pactum diabolicum implicitum.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pactum" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
