1. Unsuitable; not adapted or qualified for a particular use or service (the buyer returned the unfit goods to the seller and asked for a refund). [Cases: Contracts 312(5); Sales 284(1). C.J.S. Contracts § 562; Sales§§ 251, 253, 257.]
2. Family law. Morally unqualified; incompetent (the judge found the mother unfit and so found that awarding custody of the child to the father was in the child’s best interests). [Cases: Child Custody 32; Infants 154.1–159. C.J.S. Infants §§ 31, 36–40, 43–44, 51–52, 55, 62.]
