adjective
definition
Capable of being enforced.
Examples of enforceable in a Sentence
This right was enforceable by sequestration and sale.
We do not believe that licensing of low-powered air guns and imitations, or restrictions on their sale, is proportionate or enforceable.
He outlines a workable enforceable blueprint for a British gray status regime on the Dutch model.
Once the agreement has been finalized, it is legally enforceable.
In addition to the labourers engaged under this act, a large number are employed under contract enforceable by Act XIII.
This duty was formerly enforceable by indictment of the inhabitants of the parish, but it is not quite clear whether this procedure is applicable, now that the liability to repair is transferred to a council representing a wider area.
The only ban that might be enforceable would be the making of organized competitive coursing illegal.
Secondly it should be enforceable, Thirdly, it does not mark the end of the road.
Some of these are enforceable by the local authority and HSE inspectors, others are enforceable through the courts.
As to judgment debts, it is sufficient to say that, when by the judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction an order is made that a sum of money be paid by one of two parties to another, such a debt is not only enforceable by process of court, but it can be sued upon as if it were an ordinary debt.
In civil arbitration, the decision or award may be made a rule of court, after which it becomes enforceable by writ of execution against person or property.
A perfect obligation is one which is directly enforceable by legal proceedings; an imperfect or moral obligation (the naturalis obligatio of Roman law) is one in which the vinculum juris is in some respects incomplete, so that it cannot be directly enforced, though it is not entirely destitute of legal effect.
Thus a debt may be barred by the Statute of Limitations and so cease to be enforceable.
In the United States the years from 1870 to 1875 witnessed sweeping and generally ill-considered legislation (" Granger " Acts) concerning railway charges throughout the Mississippi valley; while the years from 1884 to 1887 were marked by more conservative, and for that reason more enforceable, acts, which culminated in the Interstate Commerce Act, prohibiting personal discrimination and gradually restricting discrimination between places, and providing for a National Commission of very considerable power - not to speak of the pooling clause, which was extraneous to the general purpose of the act, and has tended to defeat rather than strengthen its operation.
Under the Highway Acts it is enforceable by summary proceedings before justices and by orders of the county council, but in either case, if the liability to repair is disputed, that question has to be decided on indictment preferred against the highway authority alleged to be in default.
If the parents agree to modify child support payments without going to court, that agreement may not be enforceable in their state.
Since the agreement that is ultimately worked out will be enforceable by the court, both parties should get advice from a lawyer during this process.
If your child attends a public school where there is no enforceable uniform, white pants are still a fun choice to add to a wardrobe when you're looking to mix up those sweats and dark denims.
No matter what the agent tells you or what is listed on a website, it must be in writing on the policy to be enforceable.
The real debate for many in the music industry is if the copyright for the song is still enforceable - or if it was ever really valid at all.
Under these acts a right of reentry or forfeiture is not to be enforceable unless and until the lessor has served on the lessee a written notice specifying the breach of covenant or condition complained of, and requiring him to remedy it or make compensation, and this demand has not within a reasonable time been complied with; and when a lessor is proceeding to enforce such a right the court may, if it think fit, grant relief to the lessee.
No modification or amendment of this Agreement shall be enforceable against a party unless in writing and signed by the party against whom such modification or amendment is sought to be enforced.
Originally in Scotland imprisonment for debt was enforceable only in certain cases, but a custom gradually grew up of taking the debtor's oath to pay.