What does arraignable mean?
Arraignable means (law) Capable of being arraigned..
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(law) Capable of being arraigned..
[…] if a Parliament be triable and arraignable before the King himselfe: Then hath the King an unlimited declarative power of Law above all Courts, in his own breast;
[…] however I may be arraignable for any Error in my Judgment, I am perfectly free from aught of Sinister in my Intention with regard to the present Matter.
1881, T. W. Rolleston, letter dated 29 January, 1881, in Whitman and Rolleston: A Correspondence, Dublin: Browne and Nolan, 1952, p. 22, Their words may not have been arraignable by law, (though in many cases they were so) but they were such as their hearers could give but one interpretation to.
A number of Cook County vice cops scattered through the room with notebooks and tape machines, sucking up every arraignable word.
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Arraignable means (law) Capable of being arraigned..
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[…] if a Parliament be triable and arraignable before the King himselfe: Then hath the King an unlimited declarative power of Law above all Courts, in his own breast;
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