reservative

Tending to reserve or keep; Involving the holding of something in reserve.

But, says Sir Walter Rawleigh in his story of it, Eumenes perceiving the meaning of Antigonus (for that the oath in a few words mentioned the King and Princes of the blood, rather to keep the decorum, than upon any loyall intent, the binding words and summe of all the rest being such, as tyed him fast only to Antigonus, omitting the reservative duty unto the King, or any other of Alexander's children ) rejected the same.

The more enjoyment here we have A reservative store, Augmenting thus, our path to pave, 'Twill shine for ever more.

Expressing reservation; indicating a qualification or doubt.

With this enumeration of the advantages of a refined taste, we would make one reservative remark.

Prior to the closing of the meeting, Chinese delegation leader Liu Huaqiu, the deputy Chinese foreign minister, made a reservative speech , saying " we have reservations to some contents of the document."

Pertaining to a form of transfer of real estate, in Spanish and South American law, where full ownership is granted to another person but where the new owner must pay the original owner an annual fee for rights to the land.

That this is a reservative grant, viz., one converying full dominion, is manifest from the character of the annuity which by law is declared to attach to composition titles, viz., its redeemable quality.

Reservative annuities can not be validly constituted unless preceded by an appraisement of the estate by an estimate agreed to by the parties or upon a just expert appraisal .

Denoting an action that puts the object of the sentence into a state in which it remains.

In the Reservative, Intensive, and Continuative Forms as well as in the Reflexive Voice and Dative Case, which have no General Incomplete Present, this Tense is used for both the Present Tenses, but can never be used as an Indefinite Present;

The reservative form, which is conjugated throughout, has also separate causative and reciprocal bases.

An exception to a rule or decree; a proviso.

And, according to this Reservative, in the 8th year of King Richard the Second, one charged before the Kings Bench, was afterwards referred to the Parliament; and there, though the Fact was not contained in the Body of the Statute, yet because of the Proviso afore-mentioned, it was adjudged Treason.

In the dedication to Lord Hatton of the collective edition of his controversial writings after the Restoration, he declares that "when a persecution did arise against the church of England, he intended to make a reservative for his brethren and himself, by pleading for a liberty to our consciences to persevere in that profession, which was warranted by all the laws of God and our superiors.”