Legal Definition and Related Resources of Compromise

Adjust or settle differences, conflicting claims between parties . It implies of itself a mutual agreement . A coming to terms, or arrangement of a dispute , by concessions on both sides; a settlement of debts by composition .

An agreement made between two or more parties as a settlement of matters in dispute between them. In Civil Law. An agreement between two or more persons, who, wishing to settle their disputes, refer the matter in controversy to arbitrators, who are so called because those who choose them give them full powers to arbitrate and decide what shall appear just and reasonable, to put an end to the differences of which they are made the judges. 1 Domat, Civ. Law, liv. 1, tit. 14.

(Endanger), verb

• into danger
• expose to danger
• hazard
• imperil
• jeopardize
• make liable to danger
• make vulnerable
• place in a dubious position
• put at hazard
• put in jeopardy
• put under suspicion
• risk
• stake
• venture

(Settle by mutual agreement), verb

• accommodate
• adjust
• agree
• arrange by mutual concession
• bargain
• come to an agreement
• come to an understanding
• come to terms
• compromittere
• concede
• conciliate
• find a middle ground
• harmonize
• maintain a middle position
• make a compromise
• make a deal
• make an adjustment
• make concessions
• mediate
• meet halfway
• negotiate
• reconcile
• settle
• settle differences
• strike a balance
• Associated Concepts: accord and satisfaction
• compromise a claim
• compromise agreement
• compromise verdict
• discharge
• discontinuance
• negotiation
• novation
• offer of compromise
• quotient verdict
• settlement
• substitute contract

noun

• abatement of differences
• adaptation
• adjustment
• agreement
• bargain
• commutation
• composition
• concession
• deal
• happy medium
• middle ground
• mutual concession
• negotiation
• peacemaking
• settlement
• terms
• Associated Concepts: accord and satisfaction
• compromise a claim
• compromise agreement
• compromise and settlement
• compromise of a claim
• compromise verdict
• discharge or release
• novation
• offer of compromiseforeign phrases: Compromissum ad similitudinem judiciorum redigitur
• A compromise is brought into affinity with judgments

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English Legal System: Compromise

In the context of the English law, A Dictionary of Law provides the following legal concept of Compromise :

The settlement of a disputed claim by agreement between the parties. Any court proceedings already started are terminated. The terms of the settlement can be incorporated in a judgment by the court (called a consent judgment) or the terms can form a contract between the parties.

Definition of Compromise of 1850

In relation to social issues, a meaning of compromise of 1850 is provided here: had four parts- first, California was allowed to enter the Union as a free state; second, the rest of the Mexican Cession was divided into the territories of New Mexico and Utah (in each territory, voters would decide the slavery question according to popular sovereignty); third, the slave trade was ended in Washington, D.C., the nation’s capitol (Congress, however, declared
that it had no power to ban the slave trade between slave states; fourth, a strict new fugitive slave law was passed.

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