grandfather clause English

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grandfather clause

— noun an exemption based on circumstances existing prior to the adoption of some policy; used to enfranchise illiterate whites in south after the American Civil War

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savings clause

safeguard clause

reservation clause

provisory clause

proviso clause

acquired rights clause