CLASS

The order or· rank according to which persons or things are arranged or a orted. Also a group of persons or things, taken collectively, having certain qualities in common, and constituting a unit for certain purposes; e. g., a cla of legatees. In re Harpke, 116 Fed. 297, 54 C. C. A. 97; Swarts v. Bank, 117 Fed. 1, 54 0. 0. A. 387; · Farnam v. Farnam, 53 Conn. 261, 2 Atl. 325, 5 A'tl. 682; Dulany v. Middle ton, 72 Md. 67, i9-Atl. 146; In re Ru ell, 168 N. Y. 169, 61 N. E. 166. -Clas■ legislation, A term applied to statutory enactments which divide the people or subjects of legislation into cla es, with reference either to the grant of privileges or the imposi• tion. of burdens, upon an arbitrary, unjust, or invidious principle of division, or which, though the principle of division may be sound and justifiable, make arbitrary discriminations between those persons or things coming within the same cla . State v. Garbroski, lli Iowa, 196, 82 N. W. 959, 56 L. R. A. 570, 82.Am. St. Rep. 524; In re Hang Kie, 69 Oal. 149, 10 Pac. 327; Hawkins v. Roberts, 122 Ala. ljl~1 27 South. 327; State v. Cooley, 56 Minn. MU, 58 N. W. 150; Wagner v. Milwaukee County; 112 Wis. 601, 88 N. W. 577; State v. Brewing Co., 104 Tenn. 715, 59 S. W. 1033, 78 Am. St. Rep. 941. [s. 212]