Meanings
adjectivenonjailable (not comparable)
- not comparableNot jailable.
The heart of Gail Atwater’s civil rights claim was that going to jail for a nonjailable offense should be a presumptively unreasonable seizure under the Fourth Amendment.
2020, Alexandra Natapoff, “Atwater and the Misdemeanor Carceral State”, in Harvard Law Review, volume 133, number 147, page 157
Origin
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nonjailable. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nonjailable
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“nonjailable.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nonjailable. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “nonjailable,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nonjailable.
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