Qualified /(?)/
Qual·i·fied
Qualified
a.
- Fitted by accomplishments or endowments.
- Modified; limited; as, a qualified statement.
Phrases & Compounds
- Qualified fee
- a base fee, or an estate which has a qualification annexed to it, the fee ceasing with the qualification, as a grant to A and his heirs, tenants of the manor of Dale.
- Qualified indorsement
- an indorsement which modifies the liability of the indorser that would result from the general principles of law, but does not affect the negotiability of the instrument.
- Qualified negative
- a limited veto power, by which the chief executive in a constitutional government may refuse assent to bills passed by the legislative body, which bills therefore fail to become laws unless upon a reconsideration the legislature again passes them by a certain majority specified in the constitution, when they become laws without the approval of the executive.
- Qualified property
- that which depends on temporary possession, as that in wild animals reclaimed, or as in the case of a bailment.