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"clause" is a correct and usable word in written English
You can use it in a variety of contexts. For example, you may refer to a certain phrase in a contract as a "clause" or you can talk about the different "clauses" in a document.
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clause
noun
A verb, its necessary grammatical arguments, and any adjuncts affecting them.
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This is protected under the speech or debate clause in Article I of the US constitution.
"If you've got a fixed-term tenancy and you want to leave before it ends, the landlord can insist that you keep paying rent for the full length of the tenancy," says Khan. "If you have a joint fixed-term tenancy it can't be ended early unless all the housemates and the landlord agree, which is known as a surrender, or if there is a break clause in the tenancy agreement.
The Premier League champions had an initial offer, thought to be worth around £17m, rejected last month and while they are prepared to improve on that bid, they will not meet the £29.6m buy-out clause in the 18-year-old striker's contract.
"The policy should further consider whether all future funding agreements should contain a clause that stipulates that it is a condition of Australia Council funding that the applicant does not unreasonably refuse private sector funding, or does not unreasonably terminate an existing funding agreement with a private partner," Brandis wrote.
The clause is sufficiently ambiguous to leave doubts over how the stalemate will be resolved.
Americans should be defending not merely a right to be free from the oppressive attentions of the national government, not merely fighting for something embodied in the due process clause of the 14th amendment.
A new deal in which he became the world's best paid player in return for agreeing to stay at the club for another five years, to increase his buy-out clause to €1,000m, and hand over his image rights.
There was a get-out clause, which no one expected to invoke, substituting Douglas for Tyson.
Lawn refused to comment on whether Parkinson had a get-out clause in his deal that the Blades had failed to activate.
The latest draft of these propoals, known quaintly as a "non-paper", offers three main options: a "sunset clause", new admissibilty criteria and a "pick-and-choose" discretion for the court.
The unnoticed rewriting of a key clause of the Computer Misuse Act has exempted law enforcement officials from the prohibition on breaking into other people's laptops, databases, mobile phones or digital systems.
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