Taxable
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
1.
Applied to persons or property, signifies subject to taxation; liable to some common exaction levied by government to provide a revenue. A power contained in a city charter, to assess " all taxable " property, includes not only such as was taxable by law at the time when the charter was enacted, but also whatever should be made subject to taxation by any subsequent general statute.
Buifalo V. Le Couteulx, 15 N. Y. 451. 2.
Applied to costs in a cause, it means legally chargeable; warranted by law; allowable by officers appointed to adjust costs. An order to pay " the taxable costs," means such as are allowable by law.
Nichols V. Rensselaer County Mutual Ins. Co., 22 Wend. 125.