demandable
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With Sir Edmund Andros, was sent over the college charter; and the subsequent assembly declared, that the subscriptions which had been made to the college were due, and immediately demandable.
From The History of Virginia, in Four Parts by Robert Beverley
It is not so much the proprietors of the estate or the Government as the cultivators themselves who demand every year a readjustment of the rate demandable upon their different holdings.
From Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official by William Sleeman
It does not, as has been already remarked, amount to mathematical demonstration; nor is this degree of proof justly demandable in any question of moral conduct.
From An Examination of the Testimony of the Four Evangelists by Simon Greenleaf
Rajah Gorbuksh Sing came yesterday, at sunset, to pay his respects, and promised to pay to the Oude Government all that is justly demandable from him.
From A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II by William Sleeman
So long as gold was demandable for their paper, they were speedily apprised of a depression of the exchange, and a rise in the price of gold, by a run upon them for that article.
From Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Chester Arthur Phillips
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