1. The act of qualifying, or the condition of being qualified.
2. That which qualifies; any natural endowment, or any acquirement, which fits a person for a place, office, or employment, or which enables him to sustian any character with success; an enabling quality or circumstance; requisite capacity or possession. There is no qualification for government but virtue and wisdom, actual or presumptive. Burke.
3. The act of limiting, or the state of being limited; that which qualifies by limiting; modification; restriction; hence, abatement; diminution; as, to use words without any qualification.
QUALIFICATIVE
Qual"i*fi*ca*tive, n.
Defn: That which qualifies, modifies, or restricts; a qualifying term
or statement.
How many qualificatives, correctives, and restrictives he inserteth
in this relation. Fuller.
QUALIFICATOR
Qual"i*fi*ca`tor, n. Etym: [LL.] (R. C. Ch.)
Defn: An officer whose business it is to examine and prepare causes for trial in the ecclesiastical courts.
QUALIFIED
Qual"i*fied, a.
1. Fitted by accomplishments or endowments.
2. Modified; limited; as, a qualified statement. 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. — 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. — 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. Qualified property (Law), that which depends on temporary possession, as that in wild animals reclaimed, or as in the case of a bailment.