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Qualify

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

Black's Law Dictionary

To make one's self fit or prepared to exercise a right, office or franchise. To take the steps necessary to prepare one's self for an office or appointment, as by taking oath, giving bond, etc. Pub. St. Mass, p.

1294; Archer v. State, 74 Md. 443, 22 Atl. 8, 28 Am. St. Rep. 261; Hale v. Salter, 25 La. Ann. 324; State v. Albert, 55 Kan. 154, -40 Pac. 286.

Also to limit; to modify; to restrict. Thus, it is said that one section of a statute qualifies another.