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Inalienability

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in·al·ien·a·ble  (n-ly-n-bl, -l--)
adj.
That cannot be transferred to another or others: inalienable rights.

in·alien·a·bili·ty n.
in·alien·a·bly adv.


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He is unable to recognize Bolingbroke's threat, in large part, because of his belief in the inalienability of royal power: "[N]ot all the water in the rough rude sea / Can wash the balm off from an anointed king" (96).
Inalienability is considered as a special type of possessive relationships, which has the most ancient ways of expression; it involves a tighter structural bond between possessor and possessee, and tends to be not marked; it consists of a closed set nouns, which is presented mostly by attributive possession.
Further, while the definition of customary land implicitly underscores the inalienability of that land, it does not take into account the land that was alienated from indigenous communities during the colonial period and was converted into Crown or private land.
 
 
 
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