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Example sentences for "ratable"

Lexicographically close words:
rassen; rassle; rastro; rat; rata; ratafia; ratafias; ratan; ratcatcher; ratchet
  1. Then one has to remember that the ratable value of a place like Croydon is a good deal higher than the ratable value of most of the provincial towns.

  2. Made at a proportionate rate; as, ratable payments.

  3. Twenty oræ were ratable to [at] two marks of silver.

  4. Liable to, or subjected by law to, taxation; as, ratable estate.

  5. A new valuation of ratable property was made to serve as the basis of a just taxation, but was opposed as favoring trade at the expense of the landholders.

  6. In a previous year a general estimate of ratable estates had been ordered.

  7. The General Assembly shall from time to time cause estimates to be made of the ratable property of the state, in order to the equitable apportionment of state taxes.

  8. In reading the debates on these bills a foreigner is often puzzled by the distinction between ratable value and clear yearly value.

  9. On the question to be determined he would have no advantage under a special act, inasmuch as there must be a ratable disability to entitle him to any payment in pursuance of its provisions.

  10. The claim was rejected in 1885 on the ground that deafness existed prior to enlistment, and also because of no ratable disability by reason of alleged wound in the cheek.

  11. Under that statute, therefore, there was necessarily a distinction between residents and nonresidents, because the resident would be ratable for his personalty within the place, the nonresident not.

  12. Mrs. Codleyn hoped that her ratable value would be reduced.


  13. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ratable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.