Preservation
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
Keeping safe from harm; avoiding injury, destruction or decay. This term always presupposes a rcal or existing danger.
See Gribble v. Wilson, 101 Tenn. 612, 49 S. W. 736; Neuendorff v. Dur-yea, 52 How. Prac. (N. Y.) 269.