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Definition of Provisoes
1. proviso [n] - See also: proviso
Lexicographical Neighbors of Provisoes
Literary usage of Provisoes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of State Trials: New Series... 1820 to [1858]...by Great Britain State Trials Committee, John Macdonell, John Edward Power Wallis by Great Britain State Trials Committee, John Macdonell, John Edward Power Wallis (1898)
"There were other provisoes defeating the intereste of Lord Alford and his ...
The provisoes in the will making the enjoyment of these estates depend on the ..."
2. Practical Legislation: The Composition and Language of Acts of Parliament by Henry Thring Thring (1902)
"provisoes should never be used to define the case or the condition or the legal
subject; their proper function is to make a special exemption from a general ..."
3. A Treatise on the Principles and Practice of the Action of Ejectment: And by John Adams, John L. Tillinghast, Thomas W. Clerke, William Hogan (1854)
""provisoes of this sort," says Lord Tenterden, "are not to be construed with the
... In my view of cases of this sort, the provisoes ought to be construed ..."
4. A Treatise on the Law and Practice of Agricultural Tenancies: With Forms and by George Wingrove Cooke (1850)
"Of the provisoes and Conditions. a. Against the Operation of the Custom of the
... Waiver of Forfeiture under provisoes. § 10. Signature. Proposals. ..."
5. Woodfall's Law of Landlord and Tenant by William Woodfall (1890)
"provisoes and Conditions. Nature of conditions. — The terms " proviso " and "
condition " are synonymous, and signify some quality annexed to a real estate, ..."
6. The Law of Landlord and Tenant: Being a Course of Lectures Delivered at the by John William Smith, Frederic Philip Maude, Phineas Pemberton Morris (1856)
"... to Lessor 94 THE COVENANTS 94 [•87] Exceptions out of Demise 103 provisoes
and Conditions 105 Implied Conditions 105 Conditions precedent 106 Conditions ..."
7. The Municipalist: In Two Parts by Maurice A. Richter (1858)
"Negative provisoes. — Capitation Tax.—Free Commerce and Navigation between States.
... LET us go straight through the negative or prohibitive provisoes now. ..."
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