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suable

American  
[soo-uh-buhl] / ˈsu ə bəl /

adjective

  1. liable to be sued; capable of being sued.


suable British  
/ ˈsjuːəbəl /

adjective

  1. liable to be sued in a court

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of suable

First recorded in 1615–25; sue + -able

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In this business, the lawyer’s commodity is the suable celebrity.

From Slate May 4, 2018

Because he created in his song a suable offense.”

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 12, 2015

It required unions to register and lay bare their finances and made them suable for contract violations.

From Time Magazine Archive

When do notes payable on demand, or in which no time of payment is mentioned, become due and suable?

From The Government Class Book Designed for the Instruction of Youth in the Principles of Constitutional Government and the Rights and Duties of Citizens. by Young, Andrew W.

The principal contracts known to the common law and suable in the King's Courts, a century after the Conquest, were suretyship and debt.

From The Common Law by Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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