Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

clausa rebus sic stantibus

[Law Latin] Int'l law. 1. A treaty provision stating that the treaty is binding only as long as the circumstances in existence when the treaty was signed remain substantially the same. 2. A doctrine by which the law supplies such a provision to a treaty that does not expressly contain one; REBUS SIC STANTIBUS. - Often shortened to clausa. - Also termed clausula rebus sic stantibus; clausula