Emily Dickinson Lexicon

QUA'LI-FI-ED, p.

p. Fitted by accomplishments or endowments; modified. Qualified fee, in law, a base fee, or an estate which has a qualification annexed to it, and which ceases with the qualification, as a grant to A. and his heirs, tenants of the manor of Dale. Qualified negative, in legislation, the power of negativing bills which have passed the two houses of the legislature; a power vested in the president, governor or other officer, but subject to be overruled and defeated by a subsequent vote of the two houses, passed in conformity with the provisions of the constitution. United States. W. Smith. Qualified property, is that which depends on temporary possession, as that in wild animals reclaimed.