Clausula

Lat. [from claudere, to enclose.] A clause; a sentence or part of a sentence in a written instrument or law. So called, as enclosing or including certain words. Per clausulam contentam in charta. Bract. fol.

17 b, 22 b.

Clausula quae abrogationem excludit ab initio non valet. A clause [in a law] which precludes its abrogation, is void from the beginning.

Bacon's Max. 77.

A clause of this kind is called by Lord Bacon clausula derogatoria, or clausula de non obstante.

Id. 74.

Clausula vel dispositio inutilis per praesumptionem remotam, vel causam ex post facto non fulcitur. 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.] Bacon's Max. 82, regula 21. Clausula incaute inserta semper inducunt suspicionem. Unusual clauses [in an instrument] always induce suspicion.

3 Co. 81.