Stipulation

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  • noun. The act of stipulating.
  • noun. Something specified or agreed to, as in a contract.
  • noun. The document or agreement, or a provision in a document or agreement, specifying something that is agreed to.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of stipulating, agreeing, or covenanting; a contracting or bargaining.
  • noun. That which is stipulated or agreed upon; a contract or bargain, or a particular article or item in a contract: as, the stipulations of the allied powers to furnish each his contingent of troops; a contract containing so many stipulations.
  • noun. In law, specifically— An agreement between counsel or attorneys in a cause, affecting its conduct.
  • noun. An undertaking in the nature of bail taken in the admiralty courts.
  • noun. In Roman law, a contract in which the form consisted in a question and answer, formalities which in course of time came to be recognized as making a valid contract which might dispense with the ceremonials required by the earlier law.
  • noun. In botany, the situation and structure of the stipules.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The situation, arrangement, and structure of the stipules.
  • noun. The act of stipulating; a contracting or bargaining; an agreement.
  • noun. That which is stipulated, or agreed upon; that which is definitely arranged or contracted; an agreement; a covenant; a contract or bargain; also, any particular article, item, or condition, in a mutual agreement.
  • noun. A material article of an agreement; an undertaking in the nature of bail taken in the admiralty courts; a bargain.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Something that is stated or stipulated as a condition of an agreement.
  • noun. The situation, arrangement, and structure of the stipules.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. an assumption on which rests the validity or effect of something else
  • noun. (law) an agreement or concession made by parties in a judicial proceeding (or by their attorneys) relating to the business before the court; must be in writing unless they are part of the court record
  • noun. a restriction that is insisted upon as a condition for an agreement
  • Word Usage
    "Ok, so now we have in public (who knows what kind backroom pressure previous administrations put on the Afghan government) a stipulation from the U. S on what we expect from Karsai."
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