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Terminable   Listen
adjective
Terminable  adj.  Capable of being terminated or bounded; limitable.
Terminable annuity, an annuity for a stated, definite number of years; distinguished from life annuity, and perpetual annuity.






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"Terminable" Quotes from Famous Books



... part of the proprietors, but he did not think such interests ought to be exceptionally respected. He did not wish to introduce compulsion, but proposed that justices should be enabled to raise money by way of terminable annuities for the reception in public asylums of those who could pay. Mr. Dillwyn on this occasion was in a generous mood, for he observed that "he had nothing to say against private asylums, which, on the whole, were very well conducted." What he objected ...
— Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles • Daniel Hack Tuke



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