Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A provision in a statute that exempts those already involved in a regulated activity or business from the new regulations established by the statute.
- n. A clause in the constitutions of several southern states before the year 1915, intended to disfranchise African Americans by exempting from stringent voting requirements all lineal descendants of persons who were registered voters before 1867.
Wiktionary
- n. A clause or section, especially in a law, granting exceptions for people or organisations who were affected by previous conditions.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an exemption based on circumstances existing prior to the adoption of some policy; used to enfranchise illiterate whites in south after the American Civil War
Etymologies
- From late 19th-century legislation and constitutional amendments passed by a number of U.S. Southern states, which created new literacy and property restrictions on voting, but exempted those whose grandfathers had the right to vote before the Civil War. The intent and effect of such rules was to prevent poor and illiterate African American former slaves and their descendants from voting, but without denying poor and illiterate whites the right to vote. (Wiktionary)
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PossibleUnderscore Am I a deserving little kid? Am I? I do try ever so hard to use their theirs and its its and it's correctly! Jun 1, 2010
milosrdenstvi You know, right, that come Erin McKean's birthday, Grandfather Clause will deliver gifts to all deserving little boys and girls who have been good about using their and its correctly, helped of course by his merry and devoted band of subordinate clauses... Jun 1, 2010
ruzuzu Umbrage! Any new umbrage-taking on my part is grandfathered in, thankyouverymuch.
*hopes this distracts from the last umbrage-taking's requirement that nihilist be pronounced like "knee" instead of "Nile"* May 31, 2010
bilby Technical foul! You took umbrage with your first comment so obviously there was none left to take with your second. May 31, 2010
ruzuzu Umbrage! Nihilist. May 31, 2010
bilby How about knobby-kneed, doddering silvertop? May 31, 2010
ruzuzu Ooh! Umbrage! Bilby's "toothless old fogey" comment was ageist and dentist. May 31, 2010
bilby I was going to suggest toothless old fogey clause but, err, ... Dec 15, 2008
kewpid As it is a recommendation that we use "gender-neutral language" in academic writing, I suppose this ought to be changed to grandparent clause. Dec 15, 2008
bilby Sexist! Dec 15, 2008