Proviso

I. Provided, — a word by which a condition might be created in a deed; a condition beginning with " provided " on the observance of which the validity of the deed depends; a clause in a statute whose office is to create an exception, or to qualify or restrain, or to exclude possible misinterprecation. Proviso est providers prsesentia et futura, non praeterita: [the office of] a proviso is to provide for the present and future, not the past In English law. Proviso, trial by: a trial brought on by a defendant, where the plaintiff, after issue, neglects to proceed to trial according to the course and practice of the court.