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Definition of Disavowable
1. Adjective. Capable of being disavowed.
Definition of Disavowable
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disavowable
Literary usage of Disavowable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Antiquities of the Inns of Court and Chancery: Containing Historical and by William Herbert, William Dugdale (1804)
"... without any maner engine disavowable: and if they be othir than reson wole,
... but .it moste be without any engine therein disavowable; howbeit that ..."
2. Soldiers of Fortune in Camp & Court by Alexander Innes Shand (1907)
"disavowable he certainly believed it, for in the summer of 1646 he sought a secret
interview with the captive King at Sherburne. Charles knew him for a man ..."
3. The Publications of the Selden Society by Selden Society (1895)
"And this may be either through judges who too long delay to do right, or by the
duress of the keepers, or by other disavowable act. ..."
4. A Treatise on the Law of Replevin: As Administered in the Courts of the by Henry Ward Wells (1880)
"... etc., and the detaining also, as for a debt due, or a debt recovered. 2d.
Where both are wrongful, such as are disavowable both in taking and detaining. ..."
5. The Mirror of Justices by Andrew Horne, William Joseph Whittaker, Frederic William Maitland (1895)
"... horse or other thing and use it beyond the time fixed at the hiring, and those
who by the authority of their bailiwick make disavowable collections ..."
6. The Mirrour of Justices: Written Originally in the Old French, Long Before by Andrew Horne, William Hughes, Anthony Fitzherbert (1903)
"... plea in case of life, of imprisonment, of blood-shed, of false judgments, or
of any thing disavowable of right without the king's writ, or commission. ..."
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