provisoes
Example Sentences
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Why was the crown entailed by so many provisoes, reserves, and limitations?
From A Seasonable Warning and Caution against the Insinuations of Papists and Jacobites in favour of the Pretender Being a Letter from an Englishman at the Court of Hanover by Defoe, Daniel
The bill, however, was clogged with provisoes against the encroachments of prerogative.
From History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia by Campbell, Charles
Numerous heirs at law, reversioners, and creditors implored the Upper House to introduce such provisoes as might secure the innocent against all danger of being involved in the punishment of the guilty.
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron
The provisoes of the act virtually left the whole power of punishment still in the hands of the governor and council.
From History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia by Campbell, Charles
We have in these few brief provisoes the sum total of everything that, in effect, constitutes the liberty of the subject.
From The Empire of the East by Montgomery, H. B. (Helen Barrett)
