Legal Definition and Related Resources of Merit

A reward deserved; a mark or token of excellence or approbation . As a verb, means to earn by service or performance , to have a right to claim as reward, to deserve.

noun

• character
• credit
• desert
• deservedness
• dignitas
• distinction
• excellence
• good actions
• good behavior
• goodness
• greatness
• honor
• meritoriousness
• meritum
• praiseworthy quality
• quality
• rectitude
• righteousness
• superiority
• uprightness
• value
• virtue
• virtus
• worth
• worthiness
• Associated Concepts: affidavit of merits
• dismissal on the merits
• merit system

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