Emily Dickinson Lexicon

QUA'LI-FI-ED, pp.

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.