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Mental reservation   /mˈɛntəl rˌɛzərvˈeɪʃən/   Listen
noun
Reservation  n.  
1.
The act of reserving, or keeping back; concealment, or withholding from disclosure; reserve. "With reservation of an hundred knights." "Make some reservation of your wrongs."
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. (U.S.)
4.
The state of being reserved, or kept in store.
5.
(Law)
(a)
A clause in an instrument by which some new thing is reserved out of the thing granted, and not in esse before.
(b)
A proviso. Note: This term is often used in the same sense with exception, the technical distinction being disregarded.
6.
(Eccl.)
(a)
The portion of the sacramental elements reserved for purposes of devotion and for the communion of the absent and sick.
(b)
A term of canon law, which signifies that the pope reserves to himself appointment to certain benefices.
7.
An agreement to have some space, service or other acommodation, as at a hotel, a restaurant, or on a public transport system, held for one's future use; also, the record or receipt for such an agreement, or the contractual obligation to retain that accommodation; as, a hotel reservation; a reservation on a flight to Dallas; to book a reservation at the Ritz.
Mental reservation, the withholding, or failing to disclose, something that affects a statement, promise, etc., and which, if disclosed, would materially change its import.





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"Mental reservation" Quotes from Famous Books



... play or bad luck. He was too tired and sleepy long before the game ended. He realized next morning, when he came to reflect, that in some mysterious manner he had been done. However, he took his initiation philosophically, making only a mental reservation for future guidance. ...
— The Night Riders - A Romance of Early Montana • Ridgwell Cullum
... or mental reservation, given a faithful account of the steps by which I have arrived at this barrier, which is likely to be the ne plus ultra of my peregrinations, unless the generous Count de Melvil will deign to interpose his interest in behalf of an old fellow-soldier, ...
— The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom, Complete • Tobias Smollett
... his throne when he found he could not resume that absolute power he had possessed before his abdication at Fontainebleau. He was obliged to submit to the curb of a representative government, but we may well believe that he only yielded, with a mental reservation that as soon as victory should return to his standards and his army be reorganised he would send the representatives of the people back to their departments, and make himself as absolute as he had ever been. His ...
— The Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte • Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton
... presents for their own use. He therefore concluded that the system of bribery and extortion might be clandestinely and safely carried on, provided the party taking the bribes had an inward intention and mental reservation that they should be privately applied to the Company's service in any way the briber should think fit, and that on many occasions this would prove the best method of supply for ...
— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. X. (of 12) • Edmund Burke
... du 26 Septembre 1848: Moniteur, 27 Septembre.] Good words these. Then again, when candidate for the Presidency, in a manifesto to the electors he gave another pledge, announcing that he "would devote himself altogether, without mental reservation, to the establishment of a Republic, wise in its laws, honest in its intentions, great and strong in its acts"; and he volunteered further words, binding him in special loyalty, saying that he "should make it a point of honor to leave to his successor, at the end of four years, power ...
— The Duel Between France and Germany • Charles Sumner


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