CLAUSE Copy link • CLAUSEmember of a sentence, comma (technical term, but written in Greek characters by Cic. and Quint.), or pure Latin, incisum: incisio (both Cic.: smaller portion): membrum (larger portion): clausula (in jurists, a clause, chapter, etc., in edicts, laws, etc): caput (head, chapter): comprehensio (period): enuntiatio, enuntiatum (sentence). To add a clause to a law that, etc., ad legem adjicere, ut, etc. Limitation, exceptio. Condition. conditio.