saving clause
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I am afraid," he said, standing up gaunt and stiff, with a scowl on his face, "that I must take advantage of that saving clause, Mr. Clode.
From The New Rector by Stanley John Weyman
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 Eileen Power
To elude this difficulty a saving clause is thrown into this chapter to this effect.
From Gleanings by the Way by John A. Clark
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
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 Lucia Gilbert Calhoun
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