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ALLIANCE

ALLIANCE, international law. A contract, treaty, or league between two sovereigns or states, made to insure their safety and common defence. 2. Alliances made for warlike purposes are divided in general intodefensive and offensive; in the former the nation only engages to defend herally in case he be attacked; in the latter she unites with him for thepurpose of making an attack, or jointly waging the war against anothernation. Some alliances are both offensive and defensive; and there seldom isan offensive alliance which is not also defensive. Vattel, B. 3, c. 6, Sec.79; 2 Dall. 15.

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