saving clause

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The one letter is only the plausible, affectionate, amplification of the other's impertinence, with a saving clause, on the first page, inserted from dictation, when the grievous indiscretion had been committed....

From Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone by Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron

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.

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

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 Lea, Henry Charles

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 Graves, Kersey