saving clause

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The more Mrs. Temple preached and warned, holding on to that one saving clause, Freke’s devotion to Beverley in his dying hours, the more attractive he seemed to Jacqueline.

From Throckmorton by Seawell, Molly Elliot

To elude this difficulty a saving clause is thrown into this chapter to this effect.

From Gleanings by the Way by Clark, John A.

The law siding with the knave against the fool; the saving clause for the imprisonment of poor debtors in the Act of 1869.

From The Law and the Poor by Parry, Edward Abbott

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

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