1611. Cotgr., Inalienable, vnalienable; which cannot be sold, or passed away.
1641. Earl Monm., trans. Biondi’s Civil Warres, V. 125. Those countries … which for safety and reputation ought to be unallienable from the Crowne of England.
1688. Answ. Talon’s Plea, 27. This Monsieur Talon maintains to be an unalienable right of the Crown of France.
1743. J. Morris, Serm., vii. 197. God … gives all men their being, and has an unalienable claim to their obedience.
1771. Goldsm., Hist. Eng., II. 307. Giving these petty tyrants a power of selling their estates, which before his time were unalienable.
1841. Stephen, Comm. Laws Eng. (1874), II. 13. Personal chattels cannot in any instance be rendered unalienable beyond the period prescribed.
1855. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., xvii. IV. 115. That all men were endowed by the Creator with an unalienable right to liberty.
