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Liberty

1. Freedom; exemptlon from extraneous control. The power of the will, in its moral freedom, to follow the dictates of its unrestricted choice, and to direct the external acts of the individual without re-straint, coercion, or control from other per-sous. See Booth v. Illinois, 184 U. S. 425, 22 Sup. Ct. 425, 46 L. Ed. 623; Munn v. II-llnois, 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; Bessette v. People, 193 111. 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, 88 N. W. 470; People v. Judson, 11 Daly (N. Y.) 1

Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)