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Payable   /pˈeɪəbəl/   Listen
adjective
Payable  adj.  
1.
That may, can, or should be paid; suitable to be paid; justly due. "Thanks are a tribute payable by the poorest."
2.
(Law)
(a)
That may be discharged or settled by delivery of value.
(b)
Matured; now due.





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... stage was when the doctrine of consideration was introduced in its earlier form of a benefit to the promisor. This applied to all contracts not under seal while it prevailed, but it was established while debt was the only action for money payable by such contracts. The precedents are, for the most ...
— The Common Law • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
... benefices in his diocese, usually amounting to a year's income of the benefice. By a decree of John XXII, 1317 (Extrav. Jn. XXII, Lib. I, C. 2), the annates are fixed at one-half of one year's income of the benefice reckoned on the basis of the tithes, and payable on accession of the new incumbent. Two years later (1319) the same Pope set an important precedent by claiming for himself the annates from all benefices falling vacant in the next two years (Extrav. Comm. ...
— Works of Martin Luther - With Introductions and Notes (Volume I) • Martin Luther
... There was an ominous quiet in Jimmie Dale's voice. "A check payable to Mrs. Michael Breen for five ...
— The Adventures of Jimmie Dale • Frank L. Packard
... portion of Touraine and Anjou situated to the north of the Loire. He engaged, further, to solemnly renounce all pretensions to the crown of France so soon as King John had renounced all rights of suzerainty over Aquitaine. King John's ransom was fixed at three millions of golden crowns, payable in six years, and John Galeas Visconti, Duke of Milan, paid the first instalment of it (six hundred thousand florins) as the price of his marriage with Isabel of France, daughter of King John. Hard as these conditions were, the peace was joyfully welcomed in Paris, ...
— A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times - Volume II. of VI. • Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot
... of any rate raiseable in such parish or place, and who is deprived of his employment by or in consequence of the passing of this Act, and any compensation so allowed shall be paid out of the rate out of which the salary of the officer so compensated was payable. ...
— Fire Prevention and Fire Extinction • James Braidwood


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