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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Capable of being severed or separated.
- adjective Law Capable of being separated into legally distinct rights or obligations that can be enforced independently, as in a contract where not all promises must be performed before legal action can be taken to enforce some portion.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being severed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being severed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Capable of being
severed . - adjective law, economics Capable of being
separated .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective capable of being divided or dissociated
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Examples
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The ruling says the "individual mandate," which imposes a fine on individuals who do not purchase health insurance, is unconstitutional and not "severable" from the full law.
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Though bill sponsor Rep. Cory Gardner, R-Yuma, said state law already allows wind rights to be separated from the surface rights to a piece of private property, the bill would make the law explicit, allowing wind rights to be "severable" from surface rights.
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The examples Shaw discusses include two ECtHR rulings under the European Convention for Human Rights, where reservations by Switzerland and Turkey were held to be invalid and severable, meaning that the ratification stood but the reservation didn’t, and a “highly controversial” General Comment by the — now abolished — UN Human Rights Committee under the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights.
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The examples Shaw discusses include two ECtHR rulings under the European Convention for Human Rights, where reservations by Switzerland and Turkey were held to be invalid and severable, meaning that the ratification stood but the reservation didn’t, and a “highly controversial” General Comment by the — now abolished — UN Human Rights Committee under the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights.”
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But marriage is not severable from key quality of life issues, and, in fact, by advocating for full marriage, the gay rights movement has inadvertently pulled other issues further along with it.
Tracy Baim: More Than a Civil Union: It's Marriage That Matters Tracy Baim 2011
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But marriage is not severable from key quality of life issues, and, in fact, by advocating for full marriage, the gay rights movement has inadvertently pulled other issues further along with it.
Tracy Baim: More Than a Civil Union: It's Marriage That Matters Tracy Baim 2011
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And then: Over two thousand pages of laws certainly contain items (e.g., restaurant menu labeling, tanning taxes) that theoretically could have been enacted separately from the mandate, and might be considered severable.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Destroying the Constitution’s Structure is not Constitutional 2010
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But marriage is not severable from key quality of life issues, and, in fact, by advocating for full marriage, the gay rights movement has inadvertently pulled other issues further along with it.
Tracy Baim: More Than a Civil Union: It's Marriage That Matters Tracy Baim 2011
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But the main provision of Obamacare – turning private insurance companies into ultra-regulated public utilities – makes no sense without the individual mandate; it would not have been enacted without the mandate, and it is not severable.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Destroying the Constitution’s Structure is not Constitutional 2010
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But the main provision of Obamacare – turning privateinsurance companies into ultra-regulated public utilities – makes no sense without the individual mandate; it would not have been enacted without the mandate, and it is not severable.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Destroying the Constitution’s Structure is not Constitutional 2010
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