reservatio

reservatio [LL] 1 (act of) keeping back, reservation (for future use or for given purpose). manna in diem alterum reservatum scatere cepit vermibus atque computruit, cum autem in sabbatum fiebat ~o eam nulla sequebatur putrefactio S. Langton Serm. 1 17; 1258 nullus accurrat navibus ‥ ad alloquendum mercatores super aliqua ~one de mercandisis facienda (Grimsby) BBC 295; 1473 si ‥ sanitate prevalente ‥ viginti sex solidos [inter fratres egrotos distribuendos] ‥ reservari contigerit, custos ‥ in compoto suo ‥ de summa ‥ reservata tenebitur ‥ mencionem facere; ac ubi ad summam ‥ notabilem hujusmodi ~o pecunie accreverit ‥ Lit. Cant. III 269. 2 (eccl.) reservation: a act by superior of reserving to himself power of absolution. b act (usually by pope) of reserving appointment to sees and benefices. a 1331 predecessor vester, et forsitan alius predecessor ejus, oneraverunt ‥ fratres ‥ de dicendo vel agendo sub pena excommunicacionis seu perjurii, quorum absolucionem sibi reservaverunt ‥ juxta formam ~onis predicte Lit. Cant. I 423.  b 1252 ~ones, provisiones, imposiciones et processus sedis apostolice Gros. Ep. 131; 1308 summa omnium solutorum ‥ provincie Cantuariensis durante termino ~onis domini pape (Ac.) EHR XLI 352; bulla papalis ‥ de ~one Cantuariensis eleccionis Ann. Paul. 274; provisum fuit ‥ clerico regis per papam virtute ~onis, que dicitur facta Ad. Mur. Chr. 37; per diversas ~ones, provisiones ‥ beneficiorum Avesb. f. 102; virtute ~onis prius facte per papam Wals. HA II app. B 365. 3 (~io mentalis) qualification tacitly introduced in making a statement or taking an oath, mental reservation. quia potest per excommunicaciones ‥ et per spoliativas collaciones secundum mentales ~ones et infinitas alias cautelas dyaboli pecuniam negatam exigere Wycl. Sim. 59.