negotiabilityn.

1766 J. Burrow Rep. Court King's Bench 2 1226 The Assignee purchases it..with all its Privileges Qualities and Advantages; One of which, is it's Negotiability.

1825 N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 49 Lord Holt himself stubbornly denied the negotiability of promissory notes.

1856 H. Broom Comm. Common Law 11 The negotiability of bills of exchange.

1885 Law Times 78 378/2 Negotiability..is a good consideration for the relinquishment of the residue of the debt.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 304/1 The shipper or consignee may restrict the negotiability of the bill of lading by indorsing it.

1945 Jrnl. Econ. Hist. 5 66 What appears to be one of the earliest applications of the rule of negotiability to be found in any book of law appears in the Somme Rurale of Bouteiller which dates back to the fourteenth century.

1970 Sci. Amer. Jan. 15/1 An enduring tenet..has been that the negotiability and viability of a prohibition on underground testing were related to the amount of verification information that could be extracted.

1983 Times 1 Nov. 15/6 You imply negotiability on the principal cornerstone of international law.

1988 F. R. Ryder & A. Bueno Byles on Bills of Exchange 83 All bills, notes and cheques are prima facie transferable and negotiable in origin, but a bill of exchange can be deprived of negotiability and transferability by superimposition on the instrument.