Definition of alienable in English:
alienable
adjective ˈeɪlɪənəb(ə)lˈeɪliənəbəl
Law Able to be transferred to new ownership.
it was in the interest of the public and the landowners to make land freely alienable
Example sentencesExamples
- That the ‘good of the country’ is somehow alienable from the civil liberties of the people is something I have difficulty comprehending.
- A tenant is the owner of a legal estate in land and it is a basic principle of English law that an estate in land is freely alienable.
- A person's fame or ‘publicity right’ is deemed to be fully alienable and descendible.
- It is not alienable intellectual property - but constant, irretrievably and forever after granted.
- ‘Property is supposed to be alienable,’ she said.
Definition of alienable in US English:
alienable
adjectiveˈeɪliənəbəlˈālēənəbəl
Law Able to be transferred to new ownership.
it was in the interest of the public and the landowners to make land freely alienable
Example sentencesExamples
- A tenant is the owner of a legal estate in land and it is a basic principle of English law that an estate in land is freely alienable.
- It is not alienable intellectual property - but constant, irretrievably and forever after granted.
- That the ‘good of the country’ is somehow alienable from the civil liberties of the people is something I have difficulty comprehending.
- ‘Property is supposed to be alienable,’ she said.
- A person's fame or ‘publicity right’ is deemed to be fully alienable and descendible.