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Definition of Impeachable
1. a. That may be impeached; liable to impeachment; chargeable with a crime.
Definition of Impeachable
1. Adjective. Able to be impeached (of a person). ¹
2. Adjective. That warrants impeachment (of an offence). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Impeachable
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Impeachable
Literary usage of Impeachable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Digest of the Laws of England by John Comyns, Anthony Hammond (1822)
"Fraud— rendering contracts impeachable. by fraud in lessor. ... impeachable
transactions—misapplication of purchase money of feme covert's separate estate. ..."
2. Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, Historical and by Roger Foster (1896)
"The provision in the Constitution of the United States concerning impeachable
offenses is, that — " the President, Vice-President and all civil officers of ..."
3. A Treatise on the Law of Mortgages by John Joseph Powell, Thomas Coventry (1826)
"that this was not impeachable as a lease coupled with a loan, the first transaction
being a fair purchase of the rent, and the second, though induced by the ..."
4. A Treatise on the Law of Judicial and Execution Sales by David Rorer (1873)
"III. VOID JUDICIAL SALES. IV. RETURN OF PURCHASE MONEY. I. WHEN impeachable
COLLATERALLY. § 463. The principle is well settled, ..."
5. A Selection of Leading Cases in Equity: With Notes by Frederick Thomas White, Owen Davies Tudor, John Innes Clark Hare, Horace Binney Wallace (1876)
"... which decides that where a tenant for life, impeachable for waste, who fells
timber, is not also owner of the first inheritance, the Statute of ..."
6. A Treatise on Equity Jurisprudence: As Administered in the United States of by John Norton Pomeroy (1882)
"... original rules of the common law, is impeachable in equity because it lacks
that absolute consent which is regarded as essential by courts of equity. ..."
7. The Constitution of the United States: A Critical Discussion of Its Genesis by John Randolph Tucker, Henry St. George Tucker (1899)
"When an officer is suspected of being guilty of an impeachable offense, a member,
or a committee of the House (as in the case of Bel- knap), ..."
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