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Definition of Summonable
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Summonable
Literary usage of Summonable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Mirrour of Justices: Written Originally in the Old French, Long Before by Andrew Horne, Anthony Fitzherbert (1903)
"4 How far one is summonable. 5 At whose charges. 6 How often. ... 2 All those
who are not forbidden by law are summonable, none is to be summoned for ..."
2. The Publications of the Selden Society by Selden Society (1895)
"summonable are all those whom no prohibitory law excepts. No one is summonable
for a personal sin, and no one who is not a fee-tenant. ..."
3. The Mirror of Justices by Andrew Horne, William Joseph Whittaker, Frederic William Maitland (1895)
"summonable are all those whom no prohibitory law excepts. No one is summonable
for a personal sin, and no one who is not a fee-tenant. ..."
4. The Writings of Charles Dickens by Charles Dickens, Gilbert Ashville Pierce (1894)
"That is to say, I don't believe you take into account the enormous difference
between the energy summonable up in your study at Sherborne and the energy ..."
5. The Works of Jeremy Bentham by Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1843)
"That of the Barrack* distant not above half-a-mile, summonable by signals. VII.
VICINITY TO THE Present STATION op THE CONVICTS. Distance, not 600 yards. ..."
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