(business, law) A contract provision that extends coverage to events that occurred before the contract was signed.

(grammar) A clause that can stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence and contains at least a subject and a verb.

(informal) An escape clause.

(US, law) A clause in the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, stating "[Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion] or prohibiting the free exercise thereof".

Alternative form of Free Exercise Clause

(Australia, India, New Zealand, UK) A provision in a bill before Parliament, that enables the Government to amend the text of the bill once it becomes an Act of Parliament or to repeal the Act using secondary legislation.

(US, law) Synonym of Dormant Commerce Clause

(US, law) A legal doctrine inferred from the Commerce Clause that prohibits states from discriminating against interstate or international commerce.

Synonym of forum selection clause

A contractual provision determining the territorial (or less often only international, or subject matter) jurisdiction for a legal dispute concerning a concrete legal relationship.