Words / S / Law

subject to contract

phrase

C1CEFR level
78/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister

A label on negotiations or correspondence signalling that no binding agreement exists until a formal contract has been executed.

The heads of terms were marked subject to contract, so no enforceable obligations arose from the exchange of emails.

Topic: Contract collocations in Legal English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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More law words: Contract collocations