A provision in a contract that preserves the validity of the remainder of the contract if a portion of it is invalidated by a court.
a statement within the document saying, in effect, that if any part of the document is held void, this will have no effect upon the validity of the remainder of the document
law) A contract term that provides that each portion of the agreement is independent of the others, allowing a court to invalidate a clause of the contract without voiding the entire agreement.
A clause providing that it is the stated intention of the General Assembly that the remainder of the law stand if a court declares one portion of the law invalid.
A clause in a contract providing that even if one clause is found to be illegal or invalid by a court, the others are still operative and must be complied with.
A standard Liability insurance clause which means that insurance applies separately to each insured.
A provision in a contract that preserves the rest of the contract if a portion of it is invalidated by a court. Without a severability clause, a decision by the court finding one part of the contract unenforceable would invalidate the entire document.
The severability clause (sometimes referred to as a salvatorius clause, from the Latin word salvatorius) is the name for a special clause that regulates the legal consequences or the applicability of the remaining clauses of a contract when some clauses of a contract are or become ineffective or infeasible. The goal of the severability clause is usually to maintain the spirit of the contract as much as possible.
