How to pronounce “derogatory clause”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (law) A secret clause inserted into a testament and known by the testator alone, with a condition that no will made thereafter will be valid unless the same clause is inserted word for word (to guard against later wills extorted by violence, etc).

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