Corporate governance, legal & compliance · Governance, contracts, compliance & enterprise risk
Core contract language
Common legal building blocks that define promises, rights, remedies and risk allocation.
64 entries
- Amendment
- Arbitration
- Audit right
- Automatic renewal
- Best endeavours
- Commencement date
- Commercially reasonable efforts
- Compliance with laws
- Condition precedent
- Condition subsequent
- Confidentiality clause
- Consequential damages
- Contract
- Counterpart
- Counterparty
- Covenant
- Cure period
- Defined term
- Direct damages
- Dispute-resolution clause
- Effective date
- Electronic signature
- Entire agreement
- Escalation clause
- Exclusion of liability
- Expiry
- Force majeure
- Good faith
- Governing law
- Indirect damages
- Jurisdiction clause
- Liability cap
- Limitation of liability
- Liquidated damages
- Material adverse change
- Material breach
- Mediation
- Non-compete
- Non-solicitation
- Notice period
- Notices clause
- Novation
- Operative provision
- Order of precedence
- Party
- Penalty clause
- Reasonable endeavours
- Recitals
- Records-retention clause
- Renewal
- Representation
- Severability
- Subcontracting
- Survival
- Term
- Termination
- Termination for cause
- Termination for convenience
- Third-party beneficiary
- Time is of the essence
- Undertaking
- Variation
- Venue
- Waiver