The buyer and seller of a futures contract make their contract not with each other, but with the clearing house associated with the futures exchange.

期货合约使得不仅买方和卖方之间确定了合同关系，而且与期货交易所的清算有关。

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The project company is responsible for the works contract bidding documents, the total package, sub-contracts, engineering, legal documents such as clearing the audit;

负责项目公司工程发包的招投标文件，总包、分包合同、工程款结算等法律文件的审核；

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Contract interpretation is for clearing up ambiguities and misunderstandings. The process of judging the content's true meaning of a contract is an important system in contract law.

合同解释是为了消除歧义和误解，判定合同内容真实含义的过程，是合同法中的重要制度。

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Instead of a single bilateral contract, there will be two one between a clearing-house and the original seller, and the other between the clearing-house and the original buyer.

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Mr Lincoln-Hope said the 12-month contract implied 10 months of enforcement followed up by two months clearing up and administration of fines, because otherwise it could have stretched out longer.

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Credit default swaps (CDSs) are one type of derivative contract, and regulators in the US and EU put them on a faster track to exchange clearing.

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