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1775 S. Douglas Hist. Cases Controverted Elections I. 129 They directed the counsel to confine themselves in their evidence..to their rateability, without entering into the legality of the appointment of the overseers.

1792 T. H. B. Oldfield Entire Hist. Great Brit. II. 117 They however derived, from this appeal, the privilege of proving their rateability to a committee of the house of commons.

1849 C. Penfold Pract. Remarks Princ. Rating Companies (ed. 2) 31 The general principle.., that..rent is to be taken to determine the amount of the rateability.

1898 Econ. Jrnl. 8 128 But as their total amount in the majority of parishes is very small, their exemption from rateability to local objects is a matter of comparatively slender importance.

1927 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 47 xxvi The finance of our new house depended largely on this question of rateability, and it is a great satisfaction that it has been settled in our favour.

1967 D. Brown Mobile Professors vi. 160 Evidently, the advance rateability of research facilities has exactly the opposite effect upon the decisionmaking process.

2001 J. Campbell & D. Knapp Exploring Limits of Personnel Select. & Classif. iii. viii. 197 This set of 40 items was selected on the basis of content representation, psychometric properties..and rater feedback regarding item rateability.