adjective
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capable of issuing or being issued
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law open to debate or litigation
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authorized to be issued
Other Word Forms
- issuably adverb
- nonissuable adjective
- nonissuably adverb
- unissuable adjective
Etymology
Origin of issuable
Example Sentences
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Telegraph and cable transfers are readily issuable by the telegraph companies themselves.
From The Express Companies of the United States A Study of a Public Utility by Benedict, Bert
The tale was decreased from 134 to 132 pieces, to be struck from the libbra of the same standard, and issuable at the same equivalence.
From The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896 by Shaw, William Arthur
In 1897 the amount of such stock issuable was increased from �1,000,000 to �2,000,000.
From Our First Half-Century: A Review of Queensland Progress Based Upon Official Information by Queensland
The benefit of the writ of habeas corpus, which, though issuable at common law, really first took its present shape in 1679, by the Act of 31 Charles II, Chap.
From The American Judiciary by Baldwin, Simeon E., LLD
Procedure is procedure, and no writ of injunction was either issuable or returnable on a legal holiday, when no courts were sitting.
From The Titan by Dreiser, Theodore
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