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dispunishable, a. Law.|dɪˈspʌnɪʃəb(ə)l| [a. AF. dispunishable, f. dis- 10 + punishable = F. punissable.] Free from liability to punishment or penalty; not punishable.
[1528J. Perkins Profit. Bk. ix. §619 Ce wast é dispunishable [tr. 1642 This wast is dispunishable]. ]1577Stanyhurst Descr. Irel. in Holinshed (1587) II. 26/1 If this were in anie dispunishable wise raked vp in the ashes..some other would inkindle the like fire afresh. 1594West 2nd Pt. Symbol. §61 Until attornement hee is dispunishable of wast. 1628Coke On Litt. 27 b, Tenant in tail after passibility is dispunishable for waste. 1639Of Nuisance to private Houses 21 If water fall on my land, and I make a Sluice, and let it out of my land into another mans; this is dispunishable, for every man may doe this one after another. a1734North Exam. ii. v. §24 (1740) 329 The Person of the Sovereign is dispunishable and incoercible by Force. 1818Cruise Digest (ed. 2) IV. 82 If..long and unreasonable leases are the chief cause of dilapidations..much more would they be so, if they were made dispunishable for waste. 1882Ld. Coleridge in Fortn. Rev. Feb. 235 Seduction, which may be more wicked, is dispunishable. |