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Definition of Colorably
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Colorably
Literary usage of Colorably
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Heroes and Heroines of Fiction: Classical, Mediæval, Legendary; Famous by William Shepard Walsh (1915)
"... language and tone are distinctly Louis Quatorze, and the personages can be
identified, either actually or colorably, with the author's contemporaries. ..."
2. Pleading and Practice of the High Court of Chancery by Edmund Robert Daniell, Thomas Emerson Headlam, Leonard Field, John Biddle, Edward Clennell Dunn (1871)
"(as above), or any label or labels similar to or only colorably differing from
the labels made or used by the said company, as in the plaintiff's bill ..."
3. Standard Encyclopædia of Procedure by Edward W. Tuttle (1914)
"(as above), or any label or labels similar to or only colorably differing from
the labels made or used by the said company, as in the plaintiff's bill ..."
4. Irish Chancery Reports: Being a Series of Reports of Cases Argued and by Ireland High Court of Chancery, Ireland Rolls Court (1864)
"... averment—" That no part of defendant's said books or " of either of them was
copied or colorably altered from the said "book of the plaintiff. ..."
5. Reports of Cases Decided by the English Courts: With Notes and References to by Nathaniel Cleveland Moak, John Thomas Cook (1880)
"... mechanism, or mechanical contrivance made or arranged according to the
plaintiff's said patent inventions, or differing therefrom only colorably, ..."
6. Decisions of the Department of the Interior and the General Land Office in by United States Dept. of the Interior, United States General Land Office (1890)
"... and attempts to colorably comply with what he understands to be the letter of
the law, ignoring its spirit and true intent, and then makes fraudulent ..."
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