Definition of "clause"

However, Coordination facts seem to undermine this hasty conclusion: thus, consider the following: (43) [Your sister could go to College], but [would she get a degree?] The second (italicised) conjunct is a Clause containing an inverted Auxiliary, would. Given our earlier assumptions that inverted Auxiliaries are in C, and that C is a constituent of S-bar, it follows that the italicised Clause in (43) must be an S-bar. But our familiar constraint on Coordination tells us that only constituents belonging to the same Category can be conjoined. Since the second Clause in (43) is clearly an S-bar, then it follows that the first Clause must also be an S-bar — one in which the C(omplementiser) position has been left empty.

1988, Andrew Radford, chapter 6, in Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 300

The question of clausing the bills of lading, so as to avoid "dirtying", which impairs its negotiability, may also be looked into

1970, Asian-African Legal Consultative Committee, Report of the session, number 11

Any attempt to clause a Bill of Lading will be strenuously resisted by shippers, and they will obtain clean bills in the usual ways

1978, Samir Mankabady, The Hamburg rules on the carriage of goods by sea, page 215

It was held that the bills of lading presented were in this case 'clean' as they contained no reservations by way of endorsement, clausing or otherwise to suggest that the goods were defective

1990, Alan Mitchelhill, Bills of lading: law and practice

There is little authority in English law dealing with the liability of a carrier who unnecessarily clauses a bill of lading.

2004, Martin Dockra with Katherine Reece Thomas, Cases & materials on the carriage of goods by sea, page 104