stipulation

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun The act of stipulating.
• noun Something specified or agreed to, as in a contract.
• noun The document or agreement, or a provision in a document or agreement, specifying something that is agreed to.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun The act of stipulating, agreeing, or covenanting; a contracting or bargaining.
• noun That which is stipulated or agreed upon; a contract or bargain, or a particular article or item in a contract: as, the stipulations of the allied powers to furnish each his contingent of troops; a contract containing so many stipulations.
• noun In law, specifically— An agreement between counsel or attorneys in a cause, affecting its conduct.
• noun An undertaking in the nature of bail taken in the admiralty courts.
• noun In Roman law, a contract in which the form consisted in a question and answer, formalities which in course of time came to be recognized as making a valid contract which might dispense with the ceremonials required by the earlier law.
• noun In botany, the situation and structure of the stipules.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun (Bot.) The situation, arrangement, and structure of the stipules.
• noun The act of stipulating; a contracting or bargaining; an agreement.
• noun That which is stipulated, or agreed upon; that which is definitely arranged or contracted; an agreement; a covenant; a contract or bargain; also, any particular article, item, or condition, in a mutual agreement.
• noun (Law) A material article of an agreement; an undertaking in the nature of bail taken in the admiralty courts; a bargain.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun Something that is stated or stipulated as a condition of an agreement.
• noun botany The situation, arrangement, and structure of the stipules.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun an assumption on which rests the validity or effect of something else
• noun (law) an agreement or concession made by parties in a judicial proceeding (or by their attorneys) relating to the business before the court; must be in writing unless they are part of the court record
• noun a restriction that is insisted upon as a condition for an agreement