Truce

An agreement between belligerent parties, by which they mutually engage to forbear all acts of hostility against each other for some time, the war still continuing.

Truces are of several kinds: general, extending to all the territories and dominions of both parties; and particular, restrained to particular places; as, for example, by sea, and not by land, etc. They are also absolute, indeterminate and general; or limited and determined to certain things, for example, to bury the dead.
   

This entry contains material from Bouvier's Legal Dictionary, a work published in the 1850's.