Unalienable

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Unalienable \Un*al"ien*a*ble\, a.
     Inalienable; as, unalienable rights. --Swift. --
     {Un*al"ien*a*bly}, adv.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  unalienable
       adj : incapable of being repudiated or transferred to another;
             "endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable
             rights" [syn: {inalienable}] [ant: {alienable}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  22 Moby Thesaurus words for "unalienable":
     deep-seated, esoteric, immanent, implanted, implicit, inalienable,
     indwelling, infixed, ingrained, inherent, inner, internal,
     intrinsic, inward, inwrought, irreducible, private, resident,
     secret, subjective, unchallengeable, unquestionable
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  UNALIENABLE. The state of a thing or right which cannot be sold. 
       2. Things which are not in commerce, as public roads, are in their 
  nature unalienable. Some things are unalienable, in consequence of 
  particular provisions in the law forbidding their sale or transfer, as 
  pensions granted by the government. The natural rights of life and liberty 
  are unalienable.