DISQUALIFICATION - The Law Mind Legal Dictionary

DISQUALIFICATIONn.

Websters Unabridged Dictionary (1913) • 1913

The act of disqualifying, or state of being disqualified; want of qualification; incompetency; disability; as, the disqualification of men for holding certain offices. That which disqualifies; that which incapacitates or makes unfit; as, conviction of crime is a disqualification of a person for office; sickness is a disqualification for labor. I must still retain the consciousness of those disqualifications which you have been pleased to overlook. Sir J. Shore.

disqualificationnoun

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The act of disqualifying, or the state of being disqualified | That which disqualifies; that which causes someone to be unfit for a certain purpose or role | The act of being forbidden from further play in a basketball game due to the accumulation of too many personal fouls.