A clause in a legal document that qualifies another section of the agreement. An example of a caveat is when you sign a contract to sell your business only on the condition that you are a member of the board of directors. Atheists, Theists, Gentiles, Jews and Mahommedans”, provided that controversies between Christians are not mentioned. They refused to sign the treaty because it contained too many reservations. If a reservation in a contract is not fulfilled, this usually affects the validity of the entire legal instrument. However, in a statute, the fulfillment or non-fulfillment of the condition by a reservation usually creates an exception to a legal requirement or qualifies the law. National control of the railways was ensured by the condition that the directors be of Italian nationality. CONDITION. The name of a clause inserted in an act of Parliament, a document, a written agreement or another document that generally contains the condition that a particular thing should or should not be done for an agreement contained in another clause to take effect. 2. It always implies a condition, unless later words transform it into a covenant; But if a reservation contains the reciprocal words of the parties to a charter, it is equivalent to an alliance. 2 Co.

72; Cro. Eliz. 242; Moore, 707 Com. on Cov. 105; Lilly`s Reg. h.t.; 1 lev. 155. 3. A reservation is different from an exception. 1 barn. k Ald. 99.

An exception absolutely exempts from the performance of a contract or settlement; A reservation thwarts his conditional operation. An exception derives from a warrant or decree something that otherwise belongs to the object; A reservation avoids them by defecation or excuses. 8 American jurist, p. 242; Ploughed. 361; Carter 99; 1 Saund. 234a, note; Lilly`s Reg. H.T.; and the cases cited therein. Empty, usually Bitter.

Jurist, No. 16, art. 1; Ferry. Beh conditions, A; Com. Dig. Condition, A 1, A 2; Darw. at Stat. 660. The term reserve also appears in a number of philosophical and political contexts. For example, the Locke reservation is a condition of John Locke`s working theory of property, which states that although every individual who works to convert natural resources into property has a right to that property, he or she cannot have a right to that property, “at least where there is enough, and so good that it remains common to others.” In American history, the Wilmot Clause of 1846 was a failed attempt by Congress to outlaw slavery in the new territories ceded to the United States after the Mexican-American War — and a catalyst for the American Civil War. The reservation states: “Provided that, as an express and fundamental condition for the acquisition by the United States of any territory of the Republic of Mexico, by virtue of a treaty that may be negotiated between them, and for the use by the executive branch of the funds appropriate herein, neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of that territory, with the exception of offences for which the party is first duly convicted. A reservation clause in a statute excludes something from legal requirements, qualifies the law, or excludes a potential area of misinterpretation. In a treaty concluded in 1867 for ten years, renewed in 1877 for a similar period, and continued in 1887 with the condition that it be terminated with two years` notice, the finances and the entire government of Waldeck-Pyrmont were administered by Prussia, as the small country was unable to bear the military and other burdens of its share in the North German Confederation of 1867-187 and later without help.

as a constituent state of the German Reich. A reservation is different from an exception. An exception absolutely exempts from the performance of a contract or settlement; A reservation thwarts his conditional operation. An exception derives from a warrant or decree something that otherwise belongs to the object; A reservation avoids them by defecation or excuses. In a deed, lease, mortgage or contract, the execution or non-performance of the reservation clause affects the validity of the instrument. A reservation clause in a statute excludes something from legal requirements, qualifies the law, or excludes a potential area of misinterpretation. A clause in a legal instrument, such as a contract, act, or law, that requires something to happen or not to happen before another part of the agreement or the entire legal instrument itself can become valid. The word comes from the medieval Latin term proviso quod, meaning “provided that”. (For example, assuming X occurs, Y can take effect.) When they were modified in February 1806, after the demobilization of Prussia, they included the occupation of Hanover by Prussia, but on condition that this excluded British ships and goods from the entire northwest coast of Germany. However, the latter reservation, as we shall see, deprives the proposal of almost any practical significance.