Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Liable to or capable of being judged; justiciable.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being judged or tried.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being judged; capable of being tried or decided upon.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Capable of being
judged ; capable of being tried or decided upon.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective capable of being judged or decided
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Late Latin iūdicābilis, from Latin iūdicāre, to judge; see judge.]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Latin judicabilis. See judge.
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Examples
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If the federal government, or any State, can violate the Constitution without hurting any person individual or corporate, then there will be no judicable claim.
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That option has been authoritatively debunked, but Cameron is not even going that far - he is only pledging to tackle the Human Rights Act. But its main effect is to make the ECHR judicable in the UK.
Gesture politics Richard 2006
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An intergovernmental agreement would lie outside the acquis communautaire and would neither be enforceable by the EU commission nor judicable by the ECJ.
By-passing the system Richard 2005
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