Capacity for a legal right to be sold or otherwise transferred between persons.
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Examples for "alienation "
Examples for "alienation "
1 The greatest problem for our children and young people today is alienation .
2 It did not work: far from dissolving, his sense of alienation deepened.
3 As a result, Ahmed Husseini speaks of a deep alienation from society.
4 Or could it be that technology created its own form of alienation ?
5 How and why the world's diverse political institutions came to be, alienation .
1 Besides a pocket-handkerchief he had but one thing alienable .
2 Lands, according to this instrument, were free and alienable ; the freemen of a corporation held them, but claimed no right of distribution.
3 Rights are Natural or Adventitious; Alienable or Inalienable; Perfect or Imperfect.
1 She has a popular government, a system of trial by jury, of free suffrage, of vote by ballot, of alienability of property.
1 The common fields as an entire tract belonged to the community of Kaskaskia; no individual held any purchased or transferable right in them.
2 The rights offering is structured so that shareholders will receive one transferable right for each share of common stock they hold as of Dec. 31.
3 By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non- transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen.
4 The Fund will issue to its common shareholders of record as of March 24, 2010 one transferable right for each common share held.
1 Shareholders of Ceasars Entertainment would get a non-transferrable right to buy shares in Caesars Acquisition Co at $9.43 each.
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