qualified : Idioms & Phrases
Qualified fee
(Law) , 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.
Webster 1913
Qualified indorsement
(Law) , 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. Story.
Webster 1913
Qualified negative
(Legislation) , 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.
Webster 1913
Qualified property
(Law) , that which depends on temporary possession, as that in wild animals reclaimed, or as in the case of a bailment.