Endowable

/ɪnˈdaʊ̯əbl̩/ · adjective

Meaning

(rare) Eligible for endowment; able to be endowed or endowed upon..

Definitions by Sense

1. (rare) Eligible for endowment; able to be endowed or endowed upon.
2. (law, historical) Entitled to receive or eligible for dower; dowable.

Example Sentences

The following table shows, arranged according to colleges and according to departments, the various amounts received—viz., endowable fees, and endowments paid thereon.

The maximum rate of endowment was 5s. per week per endowable child, and the amount was reduced where the family income exceeded the living wage plus £13 per annum for each endowable child.

However, these ruling show some important advancements, for example, in the understanding of what properties or benefits can be considered endowable, such as shares and stocks that were not financial instruments in the precolonial era.

By the provisions of the common law, a widow was endowable of all the lands of which her husband was seized during coverture.

In case of rent charge, she was endowable unless the heir had elected to make it personalty by resorting to her writ of annuity.

If therefore the premises in this case had been sold before they were partially destroyed by fire, the widow would have been endowable in the entire sum that they would have sold for, which in this case it is fair to presume would have been $957.50, the total sum received from the sale and insurance.

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