merger clause
- A provision within a contract indicating that the document embodies the entire agreement between the parties and supplants any prior discussions, commitments, or promises, whether they occurred in verbal conversation or were drafted
- To avoid confusion about prior discussions, the parties included a merger clause in their contract.
- The merger clause in the agreement affirmed that there were no extra understandings outside the written document.
- Despite the plaintiff's claims about prior verbal agreements, the presence of a merger clause weakened their argument.
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