Middle English Dictionary Entry
justiciāble adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | justiciāble adj. |
| Etymology | OF justisable |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
In phr. ~ to, subject to the jurisdiction of (sb.).
Associated quotations
- c1436 Ipswich Domesday(2) (Add 25011)141 : Burgeysys of the toun..ȝif they puttyn distressis owherellys thanne they owyn, thanne ben they more distreynabele and more iusticiable [F justisables] to the ballives.
- c1436 Ipswich Domesday(2) (Add 25011)153 : No foreyn merchaunt be resceyved burgeys in the forseyd toun, but ȝif he be enherited [of a tenement] in the same toun wher he may be iusticiable..to the comoun.