这个协议就像各方之间的契约，而且可以成为事实上的具有法律效力的合同。

This agreement is like a contract between the parties, and can, in fact, be a legal contract.

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契据，证书作为合约、转让或合同的证明的书面文书；契约。

A written instrument given as evidence of agreement, transfer, or contract; a deed.

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但通常他们抵达时没有事先找好的联系人且特点是不会讲英语，因而所签订的支付全额运费的合同期限要比仆役契约期限长，高达七年。

Because they usually arrived with no ready contacts and typically could not speak English, the contract period for full cost of passage was sometimes longer than for indentures, up to seven years.

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The sovereign is described by Hobbes as an artificial person by which he means the sovereign is the creation of the contract or the covenant that brought this office into being.

霍布斯把君主描述为一个,现今意义上的法人,也就是说君主的权力,是由某种意义上的合同,或说是契约而形成的。

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