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Fit

Defined in 2 dictionaries — Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910)

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

Suitable; appropriate; conformable to a duty. Fit for cultivation refers to that condition of soil wlilch will enable a farmer with a reasonable amount of skill to raise regularly and annually, by tillage, grain or other staple crops; Keeran v. Griffith, 34 CaL 581; State v. Allen, 35 N. C. 37; Barrett V. Nelson, 29 Kan. 596.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

In medical jurisprudence. An attack or spasm of muscular convulsions, generally attended with loss of self-control and of consciousness; particularly, such attacks occurring in epilepsy.

In a more general sense, the period of an acute attack of any disease, physical or mental, as, a fit of insanity. See Gunter v. State, 83 Ala. 96, 3 South. 600.