proviso

(noun)

A conditional provision to an agreement

Related Terms

  • demerit

Examples of proviso in the following topics:

  • Wilmot Proviso

    • The Wilmot Proviso would have banned slavery in any territory acquired from the Mexican War.
    • The Wilmot Proviso, proposed in August 1846, rapidly brought the issue to the political forefront.
    • For many Southerners, the Wilmot Proviso forced the issue of slavery as a central component of the Mexican War.
    • In the North, many abolitionists and radical antislavery proponents embraced the Wilmot Proviso.
    • Furthermore, the Wilmot Proviso found support among those who were apathetic on the slave issue, such as David Wilmot himself.
  • Social Marketing

    • Social marketing has similar characteristics to marketing orientation but with the added proviso that there will be a curtailment of any harmful activities to society, in either product, production, or selling methods.
  • Slavery and Liberty

    • The animation includes a five second frame on 1789, 1800, 1821, 1837, the unrealized 1846 Wilmot Proviso, 1846, 1858, and 1861.
  • Logarithmic Functions

    • Making this proviso, if the base b is any positive number except 1, and the number x is greater than zero, there is always a real number y that solves the equation: $b^{y} = x$ so the logarithm is well defined.
  • Polk and Expansion

    • Polk believed slavery could not exist in the territories won from Mexico but refused to endorse the Wilmot Proviso that would forbid it there.
  • Victory in Mexico

    • Democratic Congressman David Wilmot introduced the Wilmot Proviso, which aimed to prohibit slavery in new territory acquired from Mexico.
  • Conclusion: The Increasing Inevitability of War

    • The Wilmot Proviso sparked sectarian debate in Congress that forced political leaders to make numerous compromises to determine the slave issue in U.S. territories.
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