What is "reservation"

Reservation \Res`er*va"tion\ (r?z`?r-v?"sh?n), n. [Cf. F. r['e]servation, LL. reservatio. See Reserve.]

1. The act of reserving, or keeping back; concealment, or withholding from disclosure; reserve.
   --A. Smith.

   With reservation of an hundred knights.
   --Shak.

   Make some reservation of your wrongs.
   --Shak.

2. Something withheld, either not expressed or disclosed, or not given up or brought forward.
   --Dryden.

3. A tract of the public land reserved for some special use, as for schools, for the use of Indians, etc. [U.S.]

4. The state of being reserved, or kept in store.
   --Shak.

5. (Law)

   1. A clause in an instrument by which some new thing is reserved out of the thing granted, and not in esse before.

   2. A proviso.
      --Kent.

      Note: This term is often used in the same sense with exception, the technical distinction being disregarded.

6. (Eccl.)

   1. The portion of the sacramental elements reserved for purposes of devotion and for the communion of the absent and sick.

   2. A term of canon law, which signifies that the pope reserves to himself appointment to certain benefices.

7. an agreement to have some space, service or other acommodation, as at a hotel, a restaurant, or on a public transport system, held for one's future use; also, the record or receipt for such an agreement, or the contractual obligation to retain that accommodation; as, a hotel reservation; a reservation on a flight to Dallas; to book a reservation at the Ritz.

   Mental reservation, the withholding, or failing to disclose, something that affects a statement, promise, etc., and which, if disclosed, would materially change its import.

late 14c., "act of reserving," from Old French reservation (14c.) and directly from Late Latin reservationem (nominative reservatio), noun of action from past participle stem of Latin reservare (see reserve (n.)). Mental sense is from c.1600. U.S. sense "tract of public land set aside for some special use" is recorded from 1789, originally in reference to the Six Nations in New York State. Meaning "act or fact of engaging a room, a seat, etc." is from 1904, originally American English.

n. 1 The act of reserving, withholding or keeping back. 2 Something that is withheld or kept back. 3 A limiting qualification (often used in the plural). 4 (context US English) A tract of land set apart by the US government for the use of a Native American people; Indian reservation (compare Canadian (term: reserve)). 5 An arrangement by which accommodation or transport arrangements are secured in advance. 6 (context UK English) The area which separates opposing lanes of traffic on a divided motorway. 7 (context India English) The setting aside of a certain percentage of vacancies in government institutions for members of backward and underrepresented communities (defined primarily by caste and tribe).

1. n. a district that is reserved for particular purpose [syn: reserve]

2. a statement that limits or restricts some claim; "he recommended her without any reservations" [syn: qualification]

3. an unstated doubt that prevents you from accepting something wholeheartedly [syn: mental reservation, arriere pensee]

4. the act of reserving (a place or passage) or engaging the services of (a person or group); "wondered who had made the booking" [syn: booking]

5. the written record or promise of an arrangement by which accommodations are secured in advance

6. something reserved in advance (as a hotel accommodation or a seat on a plane etc.)

7. the act of keeping back or setting aside for some future occasion

Reservation may refer to:

• Indian reservation, in the United States
• Indian reserve, in Canada
• Indigenous Territory, in Brazil
• Indigenous Territory, in Bolivia
• Indigenous Territory, in Colombia
• Indigenous Territory, in Costa Rica
• Reservation (law), a caveat to a treaty
• Table reservation, for restaurant seating
• Reservation in India, a government policy imposing quotas for political representation
• Reservation of the Sacrament, a Christian religious practice
• Nature reserve
• Military base, often called reservations
• "Reservations", a song by Spoon from their album A Series of Sneaks
• " Reservation (mixtape)" a mixtape by Angel Haze
• "Reservations", a song by Wilco from their album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

A reservation in international law is a caveat to a state's acceptance of a treaty. A reservation is defined by the 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (VCLT) as:

a unilateral statement, however phrased or named, made by a State, when signing, ratifying, accepting, approving or acceding to a treaty, whereby it purports to exclude or to modify the legal effect of certain provisions of the treaty in their application to that State. (Article 2 (1)(d))

In effect, a reservation allows the state to be a party to the treaty, while excluding the legal effect of that specific provision in the treaty to which it objects. States cannot take reservations after they have accepted the treaty; a reservation must be made at the time that the treaty affects the State. The Vienna Convention did not create the concept of reservations but codified existing customary law. Thus even States that have not formally acceded to the Vienna Convention act as if they had. As reservations are defined under the Vienna Convention and interpretative declarations are not, the two are sometimes difficult to discern from each other. Unlike a reservation, a declaration is not meant to affect the State's legal obligations but is attached to State's consent to a treaty to explain or interpret what the State deems unclear.

Reservation is the third mixtape by American rapper and singer Angel Haze. It was released on July 17, 2012, by labels Biz 3, Noizy Cricket and True Panther. Reservation received critical acclaim from critics, receiving an 88/100 score from aggregate review site Metacritic, while the BBC named it one of the best mixtapes of 2012.

Reservation was preceded by two promotional singles, "Werkin' Girls" and "Hot Like Fire". The mixtape spawned the single "New York", which became a top sixty UK hit, peaking at number fifty-eight on the UK Singles Chart, and number twelve on the UK R&B Chart.