Definition of Alienable

1. Adjective. Transferable to another owner.

Category relationships: Jurisprudence, Law
Similar to: Appropriable, Assignable, Conveyable, Negotiable, Transferable, Transferrable
Derivative terms: Alienate
Antonyms: Inalienable

Definition of Alienable

1. a. Capable of being alienated, sold, or transferred to another; as, land is alienable according to the laws of the state.

Definition of Alienable

1. Adjective. Capable of being alienated, sold, or transferred to another; as, land is alienable according to the laws of the state. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Alienable

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Alienable

alicorn
alicycle
alicyclic
alicyclic compound
alicyclic compounds
alidad
alidade
alidades
alidads
alien
alien abduction
alien absconder
alien nucleic acid
alienabilities
alienability
alienable (current term)
alienably
alienage
alienages
alienans
alienate
alienated
alienatedly
alienates
alienating
alienation
alienation of affection
alienations
alienator
alienators

Literary usage of Alienable

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on the Origin and Nature of Dignities, Or Titles of Honor by William Cruise (1823)
"Madox says, dignities by tenure were never alienable; Dignities .,.,.,* i . iv ... Madox is so far right, that dignities were never alienable without the ..."

2. Institutes of Natural Law: Being the Substance of a Course of Lectures on by Thomas Rutherforth (1832)
"Some of our rights are alienable, others are un- ... are alien*. alienable. Those rights are alienable which the law ble or ..."

3. The Institutes of the Law of Nations: A Treatise of the Jural Relations of by James Lorimer (1884)
"OF THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN INalienable PRIVATE RIGHTS AND THOSE WHICH ARE alienable. At this point another distinction, capable I believe of far more ..."

4. Commentaries on the Law of Private Corporations by Seymour Dwight Thompson (1895)
"All Other Property alienable. — It is not essential to the existence of a corporation that ... Right of Way, Works, etc., of Irrigating Companies alienable. ..."

5. A Digest of the Laws of England Respecting Real Property by William Cruise (1818)
"alienable and devisable. Tit. 37. Tit. 38. c. 3. 4 East. 271. May be leased for Years. Roll. Ab. Cop. M. Co. Cop. $51. Gilb. Ten. 299. Turner v. ..."

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