Capable of being demised or leased; legally able to be transferred through a lease or property arrangement.
From demise (to transfer ownership, from Old French) + -able (capable of being). This legal term standardized in English property law from the 15th century onward.
When your ancestor owned land in medieval England, a key question was whether it was 'demisable'—could they lease it out, or was it locked up in some legal arrangement that prevented them from renting it to tenants?
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