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Qualification

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

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

The endowment or acquirement which renders eligible to place or position.

Hyde v. State, 52 Miss. 672; State v. Seay, 64 Mo. 80, 27 Am. Rep. 206.

It relates to the fitness or capacity of a party for a particular pursuit or profession; Cummings v. Missouri, 4 Wall. (U. S.) 310, 18 L. Ed. 356. It has been held not only to imply the presence of every requisite demanded, but the absence of every disqualification imposed.

Hall v. Hostetter, 17 B.