Clausula
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
A clause; a sentence or part of a sentence in a written instrument or law. So called as inclosing or including certain words. CLAUSULA GENERALIS DE RESIDUO non ea complectitur quae non ejusdem sint generis cum lis quae speciatim dicta fuerant. A general clause of remander does not embrace those things which are not of the same kind with those which had been specially mentioned.
Lofft, 419.
CLAUSULA GENERALIS NON REFERtur ad expressa. A general clause does not refer to things expressed.
8 Coke, 154.
CLAUSULA QUAE ABROGATION Ei Vl EXcludit ab initio non valet. A clause in a law which precludes its abrogation is invalid from the beginning. Bac. Max. reg.
19, p.
89; 2 Dwar. St. 673; Broom, Leg. Max. (3d London Ed.) 27 CLAUSULA VEL DISPOSITIO INUTILIS per praesumptionem remotam vel causam, ex post facto non fulcitur. A useless.clause presumption, or by a cause arising afterwards. Bac. Max. reg.
21; Broom, Leg. Max. (3d London Ed.) 599.
CLAUSULAE INCONSUETAE SEMPER Inducunt suspicionem. Unusual clauses always excite a suspicion.
3 Coke, 81; Broom, Leg. Max. (3d London Ed.) 264.