saving clause

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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

"And my inclinations, I hope," she said, laughingly, "with no saving clause as to their being virtuous."

From A Romance of Toronto A Novel by Savigny, Annie Gregg

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

This might easily have led to disaster had it not been for a saving clause ever present in the mind of Henry Harper.

From The Sailor by Snaith, J. C.

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