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Titles of Nobility - DEFINITIONS

From: Noah Webster 1828
Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1848
Black's Law Dictionary 1891
Note: Because they are so similar, the definitions have been consolidated.


• "Emolument": - A gain of profit or advantage.

• "Foreign Power": - "Power" - a sovereign state; a controlling group; possession or control; authority or influence, political or otherwise.

• "Honour": - One having dominion, advantage or privilege over another.

• "Nobility": - Exalted rank - high social position.

• "Title of Nobility": - An order of men, in several countries, to whom special privileges are granted,

• "privileges": - To grant some particular right or exemption.

  From a court case, in Horst v. Moses, 48 Ala. 123, 142 (1872), which gave the following description of "Titles of Nobility":

  "to confer a title of nobility, is to nominate to an order of persons to whom privileges are granted at the expense of the rest of the people. It is not necessarily hereditary, and the objection to it arises more from the privileges supposed to be attached, than to the otherwise empty title or order. These components are forbidden separately in the terms "privilege", "honor", and "emoluments", as they are collectively in the term "title of nobility". The prohibition is not affected by any consideration paid or rendered for the grant."