clause, claws

Clause or clause means a provision of a contract, will, treaty, or other legal document--
I want a clause in my contract that requires prompt settlement of disputes.
Read the fine print--there's a clause requiring you to sign away any future financial claims.
Clause or clause is also a grammar term, meaning a part of a sentence--
A simple statement may be an independent clause, when combined with a dependent clause.

Claws or claws ( rhymes with clause )  is the plural ( more than one ) form of "claw"--
Don't let the cat sharpen his claws on the furniture.
The kitten's claws are sharp!
Claw can be a verb ( action word ), so "claws" would be the third person singular ( he, she, it ) form--
The cat claws at that cardboard thing every day.

Now that you know that, you can say--
"If our cat claws him, Santa Claus may invoke the naughty clause, and leave us coal and old potatoes."

Note--Santa Claus is a proper name that happens to rhyme with "claws" and "clause". "Santa Claus" is what an English-speaker hears when a Dutch or German speaker says "Saint Nicholas".