Common use of Optional element Clause in Contracts

Optional element. As a practical matter, it makes sense for the courts with expertise in the relevant law to have the right to adjudicate disputes. Where one of the parties is outside England (or at least the UK), you may want to grant the courts of their home jurisdiction the right to adjudicate disputes, as this could ease enforcement in some circumstances. The courts of which jurisdiction will have the exclusive right to adjudicate disputes relating to the document (subject to applicable law)? Should provisions concerning the interpretation of the document be included? Optional element. Optional element. Optional element. Optional element. This provision is designed to exclude the application of a rule of interpretation known as the ejusdem generis rule. That rule may affect the interpretation of contractual clauses that list particular examples or instances of some more general idea, by limiting the scope of the general idea by reference to those particular examples or instances.