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Word Meanings - ESCHEATABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Liable to escheat.

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  • ESCHEATOR
    An officer whose duty it is to observe what escheats have taken place, and to take charge of them. Burrill.
  • ESCHEATAGE
    The right of succeeding to an escheat. Sherwood.
  • ESCHEAT
    escheit, escheoit, escheeite, esheoite, fr. escheoir to fall to, fall to the lot of; pref. es- + cheoir, F. choir, to The falling back or reversion of lands, by some casualty or accident, to the lord of the fee, in consequence of the extinction
  • ESCHEATABLE
    Liable to escheat.
  • LIABLE
    1. Bound or obliged in law or equity; responsible; answerable; as, the surety is liable for the debt of his principal. 2. Exposed to a certain contingency or casualty, more or less probable; -- with to and an infinitive or noun; as, liable to slip;
  • LIABLENESS
    Quality of being liable; liability.
  • UNAPPLIABLE
    Inapplicable. Milton.
  • PLIABLE
    1. Capable of being plied, turned, or bent; easy to be bent; flexible; pliant; supple; limber; yielding; as, willow is a pliable plant. 2. Flexible in disposition; readily yielding to influence, arguments, persuasion, or discipline; easy to be
  • COMPLIABLE
    Capable of bending or yielding; apt to yield; compliant. Another compliable mind. Milton. The Jews . . . had made their religion compliable, and accemodated to their passions. Jortin.
  • CONCILIABLE
    A small or private assembly, especially of an ecclesiastical nature. Bacon.
  • RELIABLE
    Suitable or fit to be relied on; worthy of dependance or reliance; trustworthy. "A reliable witness to the truth of the miracles." A. Norton. The best means, and most reliable pledge, of a higher object. Coleridge. According to General Livingston's
  • APPLIABLE
    Applicable; also, compliant. Howell.
  • MULTIPLIABLE
    Capable of being multiplied. -- Mul"ti*pli`a*ble*ness, n.
  • IMPLIABLE
    Not pliable; inflexible; inyielding.
  • INCOMPLIABLE
    Not compliable; not conformable.
  • ALLIABLE
    Able to enter into alliance.
  • UNRELIABLE
    Not reliable; untrustworthy. See Reliable. -- Un`re*li"a*ble*ness, n. Alcibiades . . . was too unsteady, and (according to Mr. Coleridge's coinage) "unreliable;" or perhaps, in more correct English, too "unrelyuponable." De Quincey.
  • AFFILIABLE
    Capable of being affiliated to or on, or connected with in origin.

 

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