Preservation
Defined in 2 dictionaries — U.S. Code, Black's (1910)
United States Code
16 U.S.C. § 470W — as used in this subchapter
“Preservation” or “historic preservation” includes identification, evaluation, recordation, documentation, curation, acquisition, protection, management, rehabilitation, restoration, stabilization, maintenance, research, interpretation, conservation, and education and training regarding the foregoing activities, or any combination of the foregoing activities.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
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.