1. Freedom; exemption 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 restraint, coercion, or control from other persons. See Booth v. Illinois, 184 U. 8. 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.

In this sense, the term is commonly used in the plural; as the “liberties of the city,” “the northern liberties of Philadelphia.”