triable

[trahy-uh-buh l]

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subject or liable to judicial trial.

Origin of triable

1400–50; late Middle English < Anglo-French. See try, -able

Related formsun·tri·a·ble, adjectiveun·tri·a·ble·ness, noun

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Related Words for triable

actionable, disputable, prosecutable, contestable

Examples from the Web for triable

Historical Examples of triable

In a word, an error in morals is triable only if it is also an error in belief.
Medival Heresy and the Inquisition
A. S. Turberville
Offences against the game laws are not triable by justices of the peace, but only in the sheriff court.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4
Various
No suit shall be triable after the lapse of fifteen years from the date of the act giving rise to the suit.
Studies in Moro History, Law, and Religion
Najeeb M. Saleeby
Various offences hitherto only triable at Assizes, transferred to the jurisdiction of Quarter Sessions.
Worcestershire in the Nineteenth Century
T. C. Turberville

British Dictionary definitions for triable

triable

adjective

liable to be tried judicially
subject to examination or determination by a court of law

rare able to be tested

Derived Formstriableness, noun

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