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Hence, specifically, in any country, a person legally qualified to vote.

That may be selected; proper or qualified to be chosen; legally qualified to be elected and to hold office.

That which is legally submitted to competent tribunal, as a means of ascertaining the truth of any alleged matter of fact under investigation before it; means of making proof; -- the latter, strictly speaking, not being synonymous with evidence, but rather the effect of it. Greenleaf. Circumstantial evidence, Conclusiv…

Too put to death illegally; to kill. [Obs.] Shak.

Out of or beyond the proper authority of a court or judge; beyond jurisdiction; not legally required. "An extrajudicial opinion." Hallam. -- Ex`tra*ju*di"cial*ly, adv.

The price of grain, as legally fixed, in the counties of Scotland, for the current year.

on shall, for aught he knows, the next minute supervene. Dr. H. More. For anything that legally appears to the contrary, it may be a contrivance to fright us. Swift.

To fright or terrify. See Gally, v. t. [Obs.] Shak.

To impose restraint upon; to limit in motion or action; to bind legally or morally; to confine; to restrain. We can not hold mortality's strong hand. Shak. Death! what do'st O,hold thy blow. Grashaw. He hat not sufficient judgment and self-command to hold his tongue. Macaulay.

f ability to reproduce one's species; want of age at which the marriage contract can be legally entered into.

Not capable of making a will; not legally qualified or competent to make a testament. Blackstone.

nfined in prison. [Slang] - - Jail delivery, the release of prisoners from jail, either legally or by violence. -- Jail delivery commission. See under Gaol. -- Jail fever (Med.), typhus fever, or a disease resembling it, generated in jails and other places crowded with people; -- called also hospital fever, and ship…

and try any matter of fact, and to render their true verdict according to the evidence legally adduced. See Grand jury under Grand, and Inquest. The jury, passing on the prisoner's life. Shak.

A contrivance or maneuvering to catch game illegally.

descended from Raleigh's lost colony of Croatan, formerly classed with negroes, are now legally recognized as distinct.

An exception taken against a plaintiff in a cause, when he is unable legally to commence a suit.

One legally empowered to make quest of certain matters, esp. of abuses of weights and measures. Specifically:

der a defective title, to his rights under some valid title by virtue of which he might legally have entered into possession only by suit. Bouvier.

Legally required to be returned, delivered, given, or rendered; as, a writ or precept returnable at a certain day; a verdict returnable to the court.

Frugally; penuriously. [Obs.] haucer.