Quality
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
In respect to persons, this term denotes comparative rank; state or condition in relation to others; social or civil position or class. In pleading, It means an attribute or characteristic by which one thing is distinguished from another.
— Quality of estate. The period when, and the manner in which, the right of enjoying an estate is exercised. It is of two kinds:
(1) The period when the right of enjoying an estate is conferred upon the owner, whether at present or in fufure; and
(2) the manner in which the owner's right of enj'oyment of his estate is to be exercised, whether solely, j'ointly, in common, or in coparcenary. Wharton.