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noun

Stipulation n.

The act of stipulating; a contracting or bargaining; an agreement.

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; as, the stipulations of the allied powers to furnish each his contingent of troops.

(Law) A material article of an agreement; an undertaking in the nature of bail taken in the admiralty courts; a bargain.

Synonyms: Agreement; contract; engagement. See Covenant.

Stipulation n. (Bot.) The situation, arrangement, and structure of the stipules.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Stipulation" Quotes from Famous Books

... which is felt in the mercantile honor and good faith of most established governments at the present day, these governments can procure indefinite supplies of gold and silver at any time, by promising to pay an annual interest in lieu of the principal borrowed. It is true that, in these cases, a stipulation is made, by which the government may, at a certain specified period, pay back the principal, and so extinguish the annuity; but in respect to a vast portion of the amount so borrowed, it is not expected that this repayment will ever be made. The creditors, in fact, do not desire that it should ...

— Xerxes - Makers of History • Jacob Abbott

... Florida was acquired by treaty with Spain, with the same stipulation, as in the treaty in regard to Louisiana, that the inhabitants were to have the rights and privileges of citizens of the United States and be admitted into the Union; and soon after the territory of Florida was organized ...

— The Relations of the Federal Government to Slavery - Delivered at Fort Wayne, Ind., October 30th 1860 • Joseph Ketchum Edgerton

... ninth demand, which would allow the Austrian Government to proscribe Serbian officials, so eager for peace and friendship was the Serbian Government that it assented to it, with the stipulation that the Austrian Government should offer some proof of the guilt of the ...

— History of the World War - An Authentic Narrative of the World's Greatest War • Francis A. March and Richard J. Beamish

... daughter and heiress of a neighboring earl, a child like himself. Her name was Margaret. The earldom which this little Margaret was to inherit was Maine. It was on the frontiers of Normandy, and it was a rich and valuable possession. It was a part of the stipulation of the marriage contract that the young bride's domain was to be delivered to the father of the bridegroom, to be held by him until the bridegroom should become of age, and the marriage should be fully consummated. ...

— William the Conqueror - Makers of History • Jacob Abbott

... the temple and half for himself; and the abolishment of the seven leopards. "With this stipulation: Ramabai is yours, but the white people ...

— The Adventures of Kathlyn • Harold MacGrath

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