Definition of Reservation

Reservation

1. The act of reserving, or keeping back; concealment, or withholding from disclosure; reserve.
2. Something withheld, either not expressed or disclosed, or not given up or brought forward.
3. A tract of the public land reserved for some special use, as for schools, for the use of Indians, etc.
4. The state of being reserved, or kept in store.
5. A clause in an instrument by which some new thing is reserved out of the thing granted, and not in esse before.
6. A proviso.
7. The portion of the sacramental elements reserved for purposes of devotion and for the communion of the absent and sick.
8. A term of canon law, which signifies that the pope reserves to himself appointment to certain benefices.