Hypertext Webster Gateway: "proviso"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Proviso \Pro*vi"so\, n.; pl. {Provisos}. [L., (it) being
provided, abl. of provisus, p. p. of providere. See
{Provide}, and cf. {Purview}.]
An article or clause in any statute, agreement, contract,
grant, or other writing, by which a condition is introduced,
usually beginning with the word provided; a conditional
stipulation that affects an agreement, contract, law, grant,
or the like; as, the contract was impaired by its proviso.
He doth deny his prisoners, But with proviso and
exception. --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
proviso
n : a stipulated condition; "he accepted subject to one
provision" [syn: {provision}]
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