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Definition of Reservation
Reservation

The act of reserving, or keeping back; concealment, or withholding from disclosure; reserve.

Something withheld, either not expressed or disclosed, or not given up or brought forward.

A tract of the public land reserved for some special use, as for schools, for the use of Indians, etc.

The state of being reserved, or kept in store.

A clause in an instrument by which some new thing is reserved out of the thing granted, and not in esse before.

A proviso.

The portion of the sacramental elements reserved for purposes of devotion and for the communion of the absent and sick.

A term of canon law, which signifies that the pope reserves to himself appointment to certain benefices.

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Reservation Quotations

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.
Andrew Jackson

The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.
George MacDonald

General Howard informed me, in a haughty spirit, that he would give my people 30 days to go back home, collect all their stock, and move onto the reservation.
Chief Joseph

Let there be no reservation or doubt that I believe the Senate should vote on each and every judicial appointment made by the President of the United States and that no rule or procedure should ever stop the Senate from exercising its constitutional responsibility.
Johnny Isakson

In recent years, the choice of drugs on these reservations and throughout my district has been methamphetamines. It has destroyed the rule of law among the reservation people. It is killing our tribal youth in this country.
Rick Renzi

Reservation Translations

reservation in German is Reservierung, Voranmeldung, Reservat
reservation in Latin is dubium


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