severability of the contract

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• severability clause — n: a clause (as in a contract) which states that provisions are severable; esp: a clause in a statute that makes the statute s parts or provisions severable so that one part can be invalidated without invalidating the whole – called also… …   Law dictionary

• Severability clause — The severability clause (sometimes referred to as a salvatorius clause, from the Latin word salvatorius ) is the name for a special clause that regulates the legal consequences or the applicability of the remaining clauses of a contract when some …   Wikipedia

• severability of contract — The quality in a contract in contrast with entirety. The quality which renders the contract susceptible to division into sets to be performed, each set embracing a performance on the one side which is an agreed exchange for performance on the… …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• contract — con·tract 1 / kän ˌtrakt/ n [Latin contractus from contrahere to draw together, enter into (a relationship or agreement), from com with, together + trahere to draw] 1: an agreement between two or more parties that creates in each party a duty to… …   Law dictionary

• Severability — In law, severability refers to a provision in a contract which states that if parts of the contract are held to be illegal or otherwise unenforceable, the remainder of the contract should still apply. Sometimes, severability clauses will state… …   Wikipedia

• Severability — A clause in a contract that allows for the terms of the contract to be independent of one another, so that if a term in the contract is deemed unenforceable by a court, the contract as a whole will not be deemed unenforceable. If there were no… …   Investment dictionary

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• severability clause —    A provision in a contract that preserves the remainder of the contract if a portion of it is invalidated by a court. Without such a clause, if a court found that one part of the contract was unenforceable, the entire document would be invalid …   Business law dictionary

• severability — the rule of construction of contracts that allows a court to ignore a part of a contract that would render it in some way defective and to read instead what is left. It has been applied to restrictive covenants where, if the words are capable of… …   Law dictionary

• English contract law — is an influential system regulating the law of contract that operates in England and Wales. Its doctrines form the basis of contract law across the Commonwealth, including Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand and South Africa and more generally… …   Wikipedia

• Certainty in English contract law — set out rules for how judges will interpret, sever or put contracts into effect. If the terms of the contract are uncertain or incomplete, the parties cannot have reached an agreement in the eyes of the law.[1] An agreement to agree does not… …   Wikipedia