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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.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Mental reservation" Quotes from Famous Books



... Materialism of the West. From the above statement we may except the Hindu Mohammedans and the native Hindu Christians, partially, although careful observers say that even these do not escape entirely the current belief of their country, and secretly entertain a "mental reservation" in their heterodox creeds. So, you see, we are justified in considering India as the Mother Land of ...
— Reincarnation and the Law of Karma - A Study of the Old-New World-Doctrine of Rebirth, and Spiritual Cause and Effect • William Walker Atkinson
... baron stood, long pondering deeply, until upon the mantel the richly-chased clock began to strike musically, yet admonishingly. Whereupon he glanced at the cross; hesitated; then, noting the lateness of the hour, and with, perhaps, a mental reservation to retrieve his negligence on the morrow, he turned from the silver, bejeweled symbol and immediately sought the sensuous bodily enjoyment of a couch fit for a ...
— Under the Rose • Frederic Stewart Isham
... in the Pilgrimage of Grace, were hung in chains at York. Ten were sent to Newgate, where nine died miserably of prison fever and filth;[438] the tenth survivor was executed. The remainder, of whom Maurice was one, went through a form of submission, with a mental reservation, and ...
— History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. Vol. II. • James Anthony Froude


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