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Definition of Reserving
1. reserve [v] - See also: reserve
Lexicographical Neighbors of Reserving
Literary usage of Reserving
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1905)
"A reservation, and not an exception, is created by a deed conveying certain
premises, but "excepting and reserving • • * the right and privilege of taking ..."
2. The Republic of Plato by Plato, Benjamin Jowett (1881)
"Reserving for another place the greater questions of religion or education, we
may note further, (i) the approval of the old traditional education of Greece ..."
3. A History of Auricular Confession and Indulgences in the Latin Church by Henry Charles Lea (1896)
"... assignment of penance.1 The earliest definite prescription reserving a case
to the bishop, that I have met, occurs in the council of London, in 1102, ..."
4. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, John Scott Eldon (1821)
"... to obtain some light on the circumstances under which the undisputed enjoyment
of this property has gone on till 1815, reserving to myself to judge what ..."
5. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"(77) The propriety of reserving himself for the future exigencies of the church,
the example of several holy bishops,(78) and the ..."
6. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"... in many moods, in many ways, UF beginning at the end, or the middle, trying
on it various theories, reserving what I could not make out, which was much, ..."
7. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1888)
"... at 2 PM " On motion of Mr. Meier, and seconded by Mr. Perry, it was resolved
that the exchange of said lands be made, reserving the right of way therein ..."