CLAUSULA

A clause; a sentence or part of a sentence in a written instrument or law. Clausula centralis de residuo non ea complectitur quae non ejusdem sint generis cum lis quae speciatim dicta fuerant. A general clause of remainder does not embrace those things which are not of the same kind with those which had been specially mentioned. Lofft Appendix, 419. Clausula generalis non refertur ad expressa. 8 Coke, 154. A general clause does not refer to things expressed. Clausula quae abrogationem exeludit ab initio non valet. A clause [in a law] which precludes its abrogation is void from the beginning. Bac. Max. 77. Clausula vel dispositio inutilis per presumptionem remotam, vel causam ex post facto non flucitur. A useless clause or disposition [one which expresses no more than the law by intendment would have supplied] is not supported by a remote presumption, [or foreign intendment of some purpose, in regard whereof it might be material,] or by a cause arising afterwards, [which may induce an operation of those idle words.] Bac. Max. 82, regula 21. Clausula inconsuestse semper inducunt suspicionem. Unusual clauses [in an instrument] always induce suspicion. 8 Coke. 81.