Stipulation

Noun

 * 1) Something that is stated or stipulated as a condition of an agreement.
 * The stipulations of the contract won't allow you to do that.
 * If I lend you my car, my only stipulation is that you fill up the gas tank before returning it.

Thesaurus
accord, agreement, allocation, arrangement, assignment, attribution, bargain, binding agreement, bond, boundary condition, cartel, catch, circumscription, clause, collective agreement, compact, condition, consortium, contract, convention, covenant, covenant of salt, deal, demand, denomination, designation, determination, dicker, donnee, employment contract, escalator clause, escape clause, escape hatch, essential, exception, fine print, fixing, formal agreement, given, grounds, guarantee, ironclad agreement, joker, kicker, legal agreement, legal contract, limit, limiting condition, mutual agreement, obligation, pact, paction, parameter, pinning down, precision, prerequisite, promise, protocol, provision, provisions, proviso, qualification, requirement, requisite, reservation, saving clause, selection, signification, sine qua non, small print, specification, string, strings, term, terms, transaction, ultimatum, understanding, undertaking, union contract, valid contract, wage contract, warranty, whereas

Etymology
From ancient stipula:. As was the custom then, the Romans used to break a straw, as a sign of agreement between the negotiating parties, and the stipulations were put in a written form.

Translations

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 * Hebrew: התניה
 * Polish: warunek, zastrzeżenie