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reservation of rights

n.

C1CEFR level
75/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister

A formal notice that acting on a contract now waives no entitlement to enforce it strictly later.

Accept the late payment under an express reservation of rights so we preserve the termination remedy.

Similar: without prejudice to rights

Topic: Contracts in Legal English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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