Res`er*va"tion (r?z`?r-v?"sh?n), n. [Cf.
F. réservation, LL. reservatio. See
Reserve.] 1. The act of reserving, or
keeping back; concealment, or withholding from disclosure;
reserve. A. Smith.
With reservation of an hundred
knights.
Shak.
Make some reservation of your
wrongs.
Shak.
2. Something withheld, either not expressed or
disclosed, or not given up or brought forward.
Dryden.
3. A tract of the public land reserved for
some special use, as for schools, for the use of Indians, etc.
[U.S.]
4. The state of being reserved, or kept in
store. Shak.
5. (Law) (a) A clause
in an instrument by which some new thing is reserved out of the thing
granted, and not in esse before. (b)
A proviso. Kent.
&fist; This term is often used in the same sense with
exception, the technical distinction being disregarded.
6. (Eccl.) (a) The
portion of the sacramental elements reserved for purposes of devotion
and for the communion of the absent and sick.
(b) A term of canon law, which signifies that the
pope reserves to himself appointment to certain benefices.
Mental reservation, the withholding, or
failing to disclose, something that affects a statement, promise,
etc., and which, if disclosed, would materially change its
import.
Res`er*va"tion (r?z`?r-v?"sh?n), n. [Cf.
F. réservation, LL. reservatio. See
Reserve.] 1. The act of reserving, or
keeping back; concealment, or withholding from disclosure;
reserve. A. Smith.
With reservation of an hundred
knights.
Shak.
Make some reservation of your
wrongs.
Shak.
2. Something withheld, either not expressed or
disclosed, or not given up or brought forward.
Dryden.
3. A tract of the public land reserved for
some special use, as for schools, for the use of Indians, etc.
[U.S.]
4. The state of being reserved, or kept in
store. Shak.
5. (Law) (a) A clause
in an instrument by which some new thing is reserved out of the thing
granted, and not in esse before. (b)
A proviso. Kent.
&fist; This term is often used in the same sense with
exception, the technical distinction being disregarded.
6. (Eccl.) (a) The
portion of the sacramental elements reserved for purposes of devotion
and for the communion of the absent and sick.
(b) A term of canon law, which signifies that the
pope reserves to himself appointment to certain benefices.
Mental reservation, the withholding, or
failing to disclose, something that affects a statement, promise,
etc., and which, if disclosed, would materially change its
import.
