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Origin of statutable
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There is no government mint of words, and it is no statutable offence to invent a felicitous or daring expression unauthorised by Mr. Todd!
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Disraeli, Isaac
This he named the 'Destiny,' and he received no check in fitting her up to his desire; the King paid 700 crowns, as the usual statutable bounty on shipbuilding, without objection.
From Raleigh by Lang, Andrew
The ordinary lectures were the statutable exercises appointed by the Faculty, and delivered by its properly accredited teachers in the hours of the morning, which were sacred to the prelections of the masters.
From Life in the Medieval University by Rait, Robert S.
Some of the professors, no doubt, do lecture in a statutable manner.
From Aspects of Modern Oxford by Godley, A. D. (Alfred Denis)
The statutable penalty for any wilful mutilation or abstraction of any book, or portion of a book, is immediate expulsion from the Library and University, 'sine ulla spe regressûs.'
From Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867 With a Preliminary Notice of the earlier Library founded in the Fourteenth Century by Macray, William Dunn
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