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RESERVATION (See also:Lat. reservare, to keep back) , the See also:act or See also:action of keeping back or withholding something. There are some technical uses of the See also:term. ,In See also:English See also:law " reservation " is used of the retention by the vendor or lessor, in a See also:conveyance or See also:lease, of some right or See also:interest, which without such reservation would have passed to the purchaser or See also:tenant; such " reservations " usually are concerned with rights of way or other easements or sporting rights. In ecclesiastical usage, the term is applied to the practice of preserving unconsumed a portion of the consecrated elements after the celebration of the See also:Eucharist. For the See also:history of this practice and its usage in the See also:Roman, See also:Greek and English churches, see EUCHARIST,§ Reservation of the Eucharist. In the Roman See also:Church, where the See also:pope retains for himself the right to nominate to certain benefices, that action is termed, technically, "reservation." When in making a statement, taking an See also:oath, &c., a See also:person qualifies that statement in his mind, or withholds some fact, word or expression which, if expressed, would materially alter the effect of his statement or oath, such qualification is termed a " See also:mental reservation," or, in the technical See also:language of See also:casuistry, " mental restriction " (see See also:LIGUORI). The See also:system of providing See also:special tracts of See also:land exclusively for the tribes of See also:American See also:Indians, adopted in the See also:United States of See also:America and in See also:Canada, is known as the Reservation system, and such tracts are styled See also:Indian Reservations.

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