saving clause

Example Sentences

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This ingenious legislator, by a saving clause, exempted from the operation of his note machines of new invention, which, after being proved to be such, were to be admitted at the nominal duty!

From Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge by Wylie, James Aitken

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

All conciliar and other injunctions for enclosure added a saving clause of “manifest necessity” and this gave an opening for an infinite variety of interpretation.

From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Power, Eileen

But is not this laugh just the saving clause of the story, suggesting that it was play and the spirit of mischief at bottom?

From Children's Ways by Sully, James

He is obliged to be as formal and businesslike in his mode of address as the lawyer's clerk who added at the end of a too ardent love-letter the saving clause "without prejudice."

From Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) by Calhoun, Lucia Gilbert