alienable

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The answer is simply that money itself, the alienable control of resources, is the cause.

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Capable of being alienated, sold, or transferred to another

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adjective

Capable of being alienated, sold, or transferred to another

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Core meanings and parts of speech for alienable.

adjective

Capable of being alienated, sold, or transferred to another

Example sentences

The answer is simply that money itself, the alienable control of resources, is the cause.

This breaks down around edge cases relating to alienable property strictly necessary for life, though there's a case to be made that any property strictly necessary for life isn't alienable.

A slavery contract, under this theory, is unenforceable because one's self and one's labor are not alienable.

Rothbard's position was that the only proper subject of an enforceable contract was the transfer of title to alienable property.

Rights, when universal and natural are inalienable, while rights when derived from the state are alienable.

To be clear: the fact that theft and copyright infringement both relate to interference with alienable rights does not mean that they should be treated the same way.

Yet all of these take away alienable rights, and are therefore close enough to stealing by your argument to justify it.

When you take away all of my alienable rights over my bike, that's called stealing.

That's why you can't sell yourself into slavery -- your right to liberty isn't alienable.

That is unnecessary, because Palestinians already have equal rights which are not legally alienable.

Parliamentary democracy has proven absolutely useless in defending alienable rights like freedom of speech.

It's not a liquid, fungible, alienable asset the way other capitalized assets typically are.

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That's inalienable as in the opposite of the "alienable" rights I discussed above.

Given the clarifying instance GP mentions of "Some right, like the right to life, is illegal to sell" this seems more of a comparison between alienable and inalienable rights.

You've mixed up US copyright law, which allows for complete inalienability during the author's lifetime and European copyright law's concept of "moral rights" which are not alienable but the other or others.

Both areas of law relate to the idea of "alienable rights" -- stuff that only you are entitled to do, that you can sell or give away so other people can do.[1] For example, I "own" my bike.