Status

The status of a person is his legal position or condition. Thus, when we say that the status of a woman after a decree nisi for the dissolution of her marriage with her husband has been made, but before it has been made absolute, is that of a married woman, we mean that she has the same legal rights, liabilities, and disabilities as an ordinary married woman. The term is chiefly applied to persons under disability or persens who have some peculiar condition which prevents the general law from applying to them in the same way as it does to ordinary persons. Sweet. See Barney v. Tourtellotte, 138 Mass. 108; De la Montanya v. De la Montanya, 112 Cal. 115, 44 Pac. 345, 32 L. R. A. 82, 53 Am. St. Rep. 165; Dunham v. Dunham, 57 III. App. 407. There are certain rights and duties, with certain capacities and incapacities to take rights and incur duties, by which persons, as subjects of law, are variously determined to certain classes. The rights, duties, capacities, or incapacities which determine a given person to any of these classes, constitute a condition or status with which the person la invested. Aust. Jur. § 073.

— Status de manerio. The assembly of the tenants in the court of the lord of a manor, in order to do their customary suit.

— Status of irremovability. In English law. The right acquired by a pauper, after one year's residence in any parish, not to be removed therefrom.

— Status quo. The existing state of things at any given date. Status quo ante bellum, the state of things bsfore the war.