stipulation

Plural: stipulations

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
  • "a stipulation of fact was made in order to avoid delay"
• an assumption on which rests the validity or effect of something else
• a restriction that is insisted upon as a condition for an agreement
• The act of stipulating; a contracting or bargaining; an agreement.
• Something that is stated or stipulated as a condition of an agreement.
• The situation, arrangement, and structure of the stipules.
• A goal to be achieved in a chess problem; for example, to checkmate Black within a specified number of moves.

Examples

• If I lend you my car, my only stipulation is that you fill up the gas tank before returning it.
• The stipulations of the contract won't allow you to do that.

Synonyms

condition, judicial admission, precondition, specification

Related Words

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