CLAUSE

A single paragraph or subdivision of a legal document such as a contract, deed, will, constitution, or statute. Sometimes a sentence or part of a sentence. Appeal of Miles, 68 Conn. 237, 36 Ati. 39 36 L. R. A, 176; Eschbach v. Collins, 61 Md. 499, 48 Am. Rep. 123. Clanse irritant. In Scotch law. By this clause, in a deed or settlement, the acts or deeds of a tenant for life or other proprietor, contrary to the conditions of his right, become null and void; and by the “resolutive” clause such risht becomes resolved and extinguished. Bell. Clause potestative. In French law. The name given to the clause whereby one party to a contract reserves to himself the right to annul it Clanso rolls. In English law. Rolls which contain all such matters of record as were committed to close writs; these rolls are preserved in the Tower.