reservative

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Tending to reserve or keep

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

   • The more enjoyment here we have A reservative store, Augmenting thus, our path to pave, 'Twill shine for ever more.
2. 2

   Expressing reservation

   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."
3. 3

   Pertaining to a form of transfer of real estate, in Spanish and South American law, where…

   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 .
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   1. 4

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

      • The reservative form, which is conjugated throughout, has also separate causative and reciprocal bases.
      • The Reservative form appears to have been borrowed from the Münda languages.
   2. 5

      An exception to a rule or decree

      An exception to a rule or decree; a proviso.

      • It is impossible to pass over in silence the circumstance that when botanists talk of the struggle for existence among plants they are forced to make various reservatives in the conception.

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