Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Transferrable to the ownership of another.
from The Century Dictionary.
- That may be alienated; capable of being sold or transferred to another: as, land is alienable according to the laws of the state.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being alienated, sold, or transferred to another.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Capable of being
alienated , sold, ortransferred to another; as,land is alienable according to the laws of the state.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective transferable to another owner
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Examples
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The presumption of innocence is deemed alienable from the right to bear arms.
Balkinization 2007
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Harvard law prof Joseph Singer, in his "Introduction to Property Law" book: "It is a fundamental tenet of the property law system that property should be 'alienable', meaning that it should be transferable from one person to another." page 10 of the 2nd edition.
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"alienable," it must be possible for one person to transfer possession and control of it to another.
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Torture is torture and to be an American, we believe in the 1st amendmant … we all have alienable rights in this world.
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A soldier knows he has certain rights, but that any of them are "alienable" unless someone like himself stands with a rifle between those at home and those who would alienate their rights and say "NO".
Beth Crumley: 1st Battalion, 4th Marines Does "Whatever it Takes" Beth Crumley 2012
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In the middle: joint ownership, shop right, alienable ownership in author, and variants.
IPSC: Copyright Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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A soldier knows he has certain rights, but that any of them are "alienable" unless someone like himself stands with a rifle between those at home and those who would alienate their rights and say "NO".
Beth Crumley: 1st Battalion, 4th Marines Does "Whatever it Takes" Beth Crumley 2012
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In the middle: joint ownership, shop right, alienable ownership in author, and variants.
Archive 2009-08-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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On Mazzone: His paper asks whether fair use should be alienable.
Archive 2009-02-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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AH: But there's a flip side of that ? because religions are sometimes, and we must be careful not to generalise, hostile to a human rights approach, because that implies that there are individual and alienable human rights that are not consequent on God-given entities.
Is religion a force for good... or would we be happier without God? Anushka Asthana 2010
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