saving clause
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There is one saving clause in the main front, the chapel by R. de Cotte on the right-hand side being externally and internally a fine structure, and the best ecclesiastical example of the period.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" by Various
"And my inclinations, I hope," she said, laughingly, "with no saving clause as to their being virtuous."
From A Romance of Toronto A Novel by Savigny, Annie Gregg
A saving clause protects the universities "in any right they already possess," inferentially limiting their future copyrights to the statutory term.
From Copyright: Its History and Its Law by Bowker, Richard Rogers
By 1884, however, the advantages of “settlement terms” became so evident that they were adopted by the Cotton Association, at first for fortnightly periods, with the saving clause originally that they should not be compulsory.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 5 "Cosway" to "Coucy" by Various
Article 19 was inserted as a saving clause.
From The Geneva Protocol by Miller, David Hunter
