saving clause

The bishops for the most part, therefore, neglected the saving clause of the canon respecting the Beguinages, and construed literally and pitilessly the orders for their abolition.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Henry Charles Lea

Only one saving clause offered for Japan—to obtain from China a guarantee that no portion of Manchuria should thereafter be leased or ceded to a foreign State.

From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by F. (Frank) Brinkley

Cromwell said that he might alter it if he pleased, and a saving clause was introduced, not too conspicuous.

From The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon The Story as Told by the Imperial Ambassadors Resident at the Court of Henry VIII by J.A. Froude

But if he will examine the language of the prophecy, he will find he is entirely cut off from this "saving clause."

From The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

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 Richard Rogers Bowker