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Incompatibility

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

Incapability of existing or being exercised together. l^us the relations of landlord and of tenant cannot exist in one n)an at the same time in reference to the same land. Two offices may be incompatible either from their nature or by statutory provisions. See U. S. Const, art.

6, § 3, n. 5, art. 1, § 6, n. 2; Com. V. Sheriff & Keeper of Jail, 4 S. & R. (Pa.) 277; People v. Green, 46 How. Pr. (N. Y.) 170; State v. Buttz, 9 S. C. 179; Office.

Incompatibility is ordinarily not a ground for divorce; Trowbridge v. Carlin, 12 La. Ann. 882; Pinkney v. Pinkney, 4 G. Greene (la.) 324; though in some states it is.

See Divobce.