Definition of Clause

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Clause

A separate portion of a written paper, paragraph, or sentence; an article, stipulation, or proviso, in a legal document.

A subordinate portion or a subdivision of a sentence containing a subject and its predicate.

See Letters clause / close, under Letter.

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Clause Quotations

Believe in love. Believe in magic. Hell, believe in Santa Clause. Believe in others. Believe in yourself. Believe in your dreams. If you don't, who will?
Jon Bon Jovi

The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political community.
Sandra Day O'Connor

I watched myself put my paw in the bear trap on that one because there was this clause about leaving members.
Elliott Smith

In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
Francois Rabelais

And that's how I start myself. I usually go back a couple of pages, maybe to the beginning of the chapter, and I start reading. And as I'm reading, I'm tweaking - putting in a different word, changing the syntax, putting that clause over there, you know that sort of thing.
Jean M. Auel

The logic is often far-fetched - how does medical marijuana affect interstate commerce? - and some conservatives would like judges to start throwing out federal laws wholesale on commerce clause grounds. The court once again said no thanks.
Michael Kinsley

It wouldn't be fair to say that conservatives cherish property the way liberals cherish equality. But it would be fair to say that the takings clause is the conservatives' recipe for judicial activism just as they say liberals have misused the equal protection clause.
Michael Kinsley

Last year, the Assembly of the League, as a result of the initiative taken by the Scandinavian nations, further limited and clarified all the provisions of the clause prescribing the duty of states to participate in sanctions.
Hjalmar Branting

I had been warned not to get on a motorcycle, sort of. I think there is a clause in most general basic contracts to keep yourself in one piece and not alter your looks without telling them first.
Charisma Carpenter

When Tim Allen made The Santa Clause, I thought that was a delightful film. It took a modern sensibility but layered onto it a kind of sentiment.
Leonard Maltin

Clause Translations

clause in Dutch is bepaling, clausule, voorwaarde
clause in French is clause, stipulation
clause in Italian is frase, clausola
clause in Swedish is klausul, kort sats, bisats

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