endowable

Eligible for endowment; able to be endowed or endowed upon.

The following table shows, arranged according to colleges and according to departments, the various amounts received—viz., endowable fees, and endowments paid thereon.

The maximum rate of endowment was 5s. per week per endowable child, and the amount was reduced where the family income exceeded the living wage plus £13 per annum for each endowable child.

Entitled to receive or eligible for dower; dowable.

By the provisions of the common law, a widow was endowable of all the lands of which her husband was seized during coverture.

In case of rent charge, she was endowable unless the heir had elected to make it personalty by resorting to her writ of annuity.