legal provisions
Codified regulatory terms
Legal provisions are specific clauses, sections, or stipulations within laws, contracts, or other formal documents that establish particular rules or requirements.
A contract might include provisions for termination, arbitration, or confidentiality.
In legislation, provisions detail how a law operates: The bill's provisions take effect in January.
To make provision for something is to prepare for it in advance.
- statuteEnacted written rule
- agreementShared position between parties
- amendmentChange to official text
- ordinanceOfficial government regulation
- articleWritten piece or grammatical word
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Unwritten mutual understandings
gentleman's agreements · handshake deals · non-binding agreements · oral contracts · honor system
legal provisionscustomary practices
Established norms of behavior
social conventions · cultural norms · unwritten rules · traditions · social mores
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