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Dignity

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

In English law

An honor; a title, station or distinction of honor. Dignities are a species of incorporeal hereditaments, in which a person may have a property or estate.

2 Bl. Comm. 37; 1 Bl. Co.min. 396; 1 Crabb, Real Prop. 468, et seq.