saving clause

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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 he accepted many of the old Scot's positions, merely gliding in a saving clause by way of amendment, to salve his conscience, as it were, between two forkfuls of hay.

From Deep Moat Grange by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

Article 19 was inserted as a saving clause.

From The Geneva Protocol by Miller, David Hunter

By 1884, however, the advantages of “settlement terms” became so evident that they were adopted by the Cotton Association, at first for fortnightly periods, with the saving clause originally that they should not be compulsory.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 5 "Cosway" to "Coucy" by Various

Our pedantry wants even the saving clause of Enthusiasm.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers by Stevenson, Robert Louis