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K87l Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

The letter reserved ~?

Hi,

I am not sure what "reserved" means here.

"The letter reserved [a name of a company]’s rights under the agreement."

It seems like "I declare that my rights are reserved in this letter" or something, but I am not sure what it means. I looked up a dictionary but it wasn't very helpful.

Thanks in advance!
  

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Here is an interesting link about reserving your rights. com/questions/1584/what-is-the-effect-of-saying-we-reserve-our-clients-rights-when-writing-to Clive

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"to reserve your rights" is legal jargon, though well enough known by many people.

When you use this expression, you are saying to the other person that they should not consider that you are taking a relaxed view of a business situation or dispute. You want to avoid the situation later where the other says - I read your letter and interpreted it to mean that you were not going to insist
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Hi Clive,

Thank you very much for the link! It really really helped. Emotion: smile
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Hi Michael,

Thank you very much for your detailed explanation! It was very helpful for me to understand the sentence.
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