stipulate

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   give a guarantee or promise of

   They stipulated to release all the prisoners

2. 2
   verb

   To require (something) as a condition of a contract or agreement.

   In general, steel springs were stipulated for primary suspension, although rubber was accepted for auxiliary springing; hydraulic dampers were specified and the use of laminated springs ruled out.

3. 3
   verb

   To specify, promise or guarantee something in an agreement.

   Out of special love and affection they stipulate that the survivor shall remain in full possession and use the entire temporal estate which they leave behind and none of the heirs shall demand an account or proof or balance so that the survivor may manage the estate in the manner he or she thinks best.

4. 4
   verb

   To acknowledge the truth of; not to challenge.

   The defense stipulates that the witness has identified my client.

5. 5
   verb

   To ask for a contractual term.

   Although another person cannot stipulate for us, yet in our stipulations we can associate with ourselves another person who stipulates for the same performance, and is called an adstipulator.

6. 6
   verb

   To mutually agree.

   Parties stipulate to serve discovery and notice discovery depositions no later than 45 days after the opening of discovery, and to respond to discovery within 30 days and take discovery depositions no later than the closing date of discovery.

7. 7
   verb

   make an oral contract or agreement in the verbal form of question and answer that is necessary to give it legal force

8. 8
   verb

   specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement

Etymology

From Latin stipulātus, perfect active participle of stipulor (“to demand a formal promise, stipulate”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).