SEVERABLE STATUTE

A statute which remains in effect after invalid portions of the statute are removed or struck down. … [Read more...] about SEVERABLE STATUTE

An agreement that consists of several parts where a breach of one part does not invalidate the entire contract, e.g. the sale of several capital fixtures with installment payments where a breach of contract does not mean that the first delivered fixture currently being paid upon is automatically invalidated. … [Read more...] about SEVERABLE CONTRACT

Able to be severed or separated without causing significant damage or destruction to the whole, e.g. a case is severable into two separate cases. Admitting of severance or separation, capable of being divided; capable of being severed from other things to which it was joined, and yet maintaining a complete and independent existence. … [Read more...] about SEVERABLE

A contract provision that states that if a court finds one clause of a contract unenforceable, only that portion is invalidated and does not affect the validity of the entire agreement. Without this provision, an unenforceable clause could invalidate the entire contract. … [Read more...] about SEVERABILITY CLAUSE

A state of separation or partition. A several agreement or covenant, is one entered into by two or more persons separately, each binding himself for the whole; a several action is one in which two or more persons are separately charged; a several inheritance, is one conveyed so as to descend, or come to two persons separately by moieties. Several is usually opposed to joint. … [Read more...] about SEVERA