LIBERTY

1. Freedom; exemption from extraneous control. The power of the will, in its moral freedom, to follow the dictates of it.s unrestricted choice, and to direct the external acts of the individual without restraint, coercion, or control from other persons. See Booth v. Illlnois, 184 U. S. 425, 22 Sup. Ct. 425, 46 L. Ed. 623; Munn v. Illinois, 94 U. S. 142, 24 L. Ed. 77; People v. Warden of City Prison, 157 N. Y. 116, 51 N. •E. 1006, 43 L. R. A. 264, 68 Am. St. Rep. 763; Be ette v. People, 193 Ill. 334, 62 N. E. 215, 56 L. R. A. 558; State v. Continental Tobacco Co., 177 Mo. 1, 75 S. W. 737; Kuhn v. Detroit City Council, 70 Mich. 534, 38 N. W. 470; People v. Judson, 11 Daly (N. Y.) L "Liberty," as used in the provision of the fourteenth amendment to the federal constitution, forbidding the states to deprive any per•· · son of life, liberty, or property without due proce of law, includes, it S/lems, not merely the right of a person to be free from physical restraint, but to be free in the enjoyment of all bis faculties in all lawful ways; to live and work where he will; to earn-his livelihood by any lawful calling; to pursue any livelihood or avocation; and for that purpose to enter into nil contracts which may be proper, nece ary, and e ential to carrying out the purposes above mentioned. All geyer v. State of Louisiana, 17 Sup. Ct. 427, 165 U. S. 578, 41 L. Ed. 832. 2. The word also means a franchise or personal privilege, being some part of the sovereign power, vested in an individual. either by grant or prescription. 3, In a derivative sense, the term denotes the place, district, or boundaries within which a special franchise ls enjoyed, an im- - mtlnlty claimed, or a jurisdiction exercised. [s. 728]