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Mental Reservation

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Mental reservation, a silent exception to the general words of a promise or agreement not expressed, on account of a general understanding on the subject. But the word has been applied to an exception existing in the mind of the one party only, and has been degraded to signify a dishonest excuse for evading or infringing a promise

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