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Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
Not bound to servitude. At liberty to act as one pleases. This word is put in opposition to slave.
U. S. Const art 1, $ 2.
Used In distinction from being bound as an apprentice. The Declaration of Independence asserts that all men are bom free; and in this sense in Scott V. Sanford, 19 How. (17. S.) 393, 15 L. Ed. 691. (Certain: as, free services. These were also more honorable. Confined to the person possessing, instead of being held In common; as, free flahery.