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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
A gift, or more properly, the thing given. It is provided by the constitution of the United States, art.
1, s. 9, n.
7, that “no person holding any office of profit or trust under them [the United States] shall, without the consent of congress, accept of any present, emolument, or office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state.”