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Proviso means a conditional provision to an agreement. It may refer to
- Proviso Township, Cook County, Illinois, United States
- Wilmot Proviso, an American law to ban slavery in annexed territory from Mexico proposed by David Wilmot in the 1840s
- Lockean proviso, a feature of John Locke's labour theory of property