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A Dictionary of Law · William C. Anderson · 1889

A Dictionary of Law

See Movable. JMMITNlTY.s Exemption from a duty, obligation, penalty, or service, which the law requires of citizens in general. Freedom from what otherwise would be a duty or burden.* The Fourteenth Amendment secures immunity from Inequality of legal protection, as to life, liberty, or property.* Immunity from taxation, as of the property of a railroad corporation, not being a franchise, but a personal privilege, is not transferable even under a decree of foreclosure.* See further PBrvrLEOE, 1; Prohibition, 1; Tax, 2.