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Immunity

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

Black's Law Dictionary

An exemption from serving in an office or performing duties which the law generally requires other citizens to perform.

Long v. Converse, 91 U. S. 113, 23 L. Ed. 233 ; Ex parte Levy, 48 Ark. 54, 51 Am. Rep. 550; Lonas v. State, 3 Heisk. (Tenn.) 306; Douglass v. Stephens, 1 Del. Ch. 476.