Liberty

(POLITICAL.) Po- be his soil and freehold, or the soil litical liberty may be defined to be and freehold of a third person, by the security with which, from the whose command he entered. 2 Salk. constitution, form, and nature of the 453; 7 T. R. 355; 1 Saund. 299, established government, the citizens b. note. enjoy civil liberty. No ideas or LIBERUM TENEMENTUM, definitions are more distinguishable estate, the same as freehold, (q. v.) than those of civil and political lib- or frank tenement. erty, yet they are generally con- LICENSE, contracts, isa right founded.

1 Bl. Com. 6,125.

The given by some competent authority political liberty of a state is based to do an act, which without such auupon those fundamental laws which thority would be illegal. The inestablish the distribution of legisla- strument or writing which secures tive and executive powers. The this right, is also called a license. political liberty of a citizen is that Vide Ayl. Parerg. 353; 15 Vin. tranquillity of mind, which is the Ab. 92; Ang. Wat. Co. 61, 85. effect of an opinion that he is in per- LICENSE, international law, 1s fect security; and to insure this an authority given by one. of two security, the government must be belligerent parties, to the citizens or such that one citizen shall not fear subjects of the other, to carry ona another. specified trade. The effects of the