The word used in introducing a proviso (which see.) ordinarily it sig nifles or expresses a condition; but this is not invariable, for, according to the context, it may import a covenant, or a limitation or qualification, or a restraint, modification, or exception to something w’hich precedes. See Stanley v. Colt, 5 wall. 166, 18 L. Ed. 502 , Stoel v. Flanders, 68 wis. 256, 32 N. W. 114 ; Robertson v. Caw, 3 Barb. (N. Y.) 418; Paschall v. Passmore, 15 Pa. 308; Carroll v. State, 58 Ala. 396; Colt v. Hubbard, 83 Conn. 281; woodruff v. woodruff, 44 N. J. Eq. 349, 16 Atl. 4, 1 L. R. A. 380
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
