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nouna separate section of a legal document (as a statute or contract or will)
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noun(grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate functioning as a part of a complex sentencepart of:
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- and A particle which expresses the relation of connection or addition. It is used to conjoin a word with a word, a clause with a clause, or a sentence with a sentence.
- without Unless; except; -- introducing a clause.
- unless Upon any less condition than (the fact or thing stated in the sentence or clause which follows); if not; supposing that not; if it be not; were it not that; except.
- agent the semantic role of the animate entity that instigates or causes the happening denoted by the verb in the clause
- nor A negative connective or particle, introducing the second member or clause of a negative proposition, following neither, or not, in the first member or clause (as or in affirmative propositions follows either). Nor is also used sometimes in the first member for neither, and sometimes the neither is omitted and implied by the use of nor.
- patient the semantic role of an entity that is not the agent but is directly involved in or affected by the happening denoted by the verb in the clause
- main (of a clause) capable of standing syntactically alone as a complete sentence
- result the semantic role of the noun phrase whose referent exists only by virtue of the activity denoted by the verb in the clause
- independent (of a clause) capable of standing syntactically alone as a complete sentence
- joker an inconspicuous clause in a document or bill that affects its meaning in a way that is not immediately apparent