Since the time of Edward I, the crown of England has not been suable unless it has specifically consented to suit. From Wordnik.com. [The Conservative Assault on the Constitution] Reference
As for the effects of shoplifting, nevermind how much petty shoplifting - not organised crime robbery of shipping containers - really impacts any business, take that policy you mentioned, of making the employees on duty make up the cost of missing merchandise, well that would be probaly illegal where I live, and definitely suable. From Wordnik.com. [When do you not mind breaking the law?] Reference
Old B's to be suable as well as little B's parents. From Wordnik.com. [legitgov] Reference
When does bad science become palpable, suable, criminal fraud?. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
The white suable population of Sumpter was then some 2,400 men. From Wordnik.com. [The flush times of Alabama and Mississippi : a series of sketches,] Reference
There is also a call for doctors to decide who does or doesn't merit IVF, which is dangerous and suable. From Wordnik.com. [jillstanek.com] Reference
Well if these are the kind of opportunities that make 'AMerica, the land of opportunities' I'll pass, it is sickening… A child should never be suable is that a word?. From Wordnik.com. [Reuters: Top News] Reference
States is "not suable of common right, the party who institutes such suit must bring his case within the authority of some act of Congress, or the court cannot exercise jurisdiction over it.". From Wordnik.com. [The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952] Reference
So too, wherever a man is suable by either of the actions called exercitoria and institoria, he may, in lieu thereof, be sued directly by a condiction, because in effect the contract in such cases is made at his bidding. From Wordnik.com. [The Institutes of Justinian] Reference
While a city is from one point of view but an emanation from the government's sovereignty and an agent thereof, when it borrows money it is held to be acting in a corporate or private capacity, and so to be suable on its contracts. From Wordnik.com. [The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952] Reference
Be it further enacted, That said bond shall be suable in the Superior Courts of this State, and said suits shall be triable at the first term of the Court, subject to the usual causes of continuance, except that the absence of a witness in the army shall not be good cause of continuance. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of the Senate of the Extra Session of the General Assembly, of the State of Georgia, Convened by Proclamation of the Governor, at Macon, February 15th, 1865] Reference
In the latter case, a foreign corporation, which had not been issued a license to do business in Washington, but which systematically and continuously employed a force of salesmen, residents thereof, to canvass for orders therein, was held suable in Washington for unpaid unemployment compensation contributions in respect to such salesmen. From Wordnik.com. [The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952] Reference
14 Hence, when a pawn is stolen the pawnee can sue, even though his debtor be perfectly able to pay the debt; for it is more advantageous to him to rely on the pledge, than to bring a personal action: and this rule is so unbending that even the pawnor who steals a pawn is suable for theft by the pawnee. From Wordnik.com. [The Institutes of Justinian] Reference
Plaintiffs who venture to commence an action before the time agreed upon, or before the obligation is yet actionable, we subject to the constitution of Zeno, which that most sacred legislator enacted as to overclaims in respect of time; whereby, if the plaintiff does not observe the stay which he has voluntarily granted, or which is implied in the very nature of the action, the time during which he ought to have postponed his action shall be doubled, and at its termination the defendant shall not be suable until he has been reimbursed for all expenses hitherto incurred. From Wordnik.com. [The Institutes of Justinian] Reference
8 and similarly, if your slave is run over by a team of mules, which the driver has not enough skill to hold, the latter is suable for carelessness; and the case is the same if he was simply not strong enough to hold them, provided they could have been held by a stronger man. From Wordnik.com. [The Institutes of Justinian] Reference
His great work, De JSaturu Bre - vium, is highly praised for its utility by Blackstone; who calls it, "A Digest of that most ancient and highly venerable Collection of Forms, the register of such writs as are suable cut of the King's Courts: in which every man who is injured, will be sure to find a method of relief exactly adapted to his own case, described within the compass of a few lines, and yet Without the omission of any material cijcumstunce.". From Wordnik.com. [Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical] Reference
1 This action is maintainable only where the robbery is attended with wrongful intention; consequently, if a man by mistake thought that property was his own, and, in his ignorance of law, forcibly carried it off in the belief that it was lawful for an owner to take away, even by force, a thing belonging to himself from a person in whose possession it was, he cannot be held liable to this action; and similarly on principle he would not in such a case be suable for theft. From Wordnik.com. [The Institutes of Justinian] Reference
3 Conversely, the adrogator is not, by strict law, suable for the debts of his adoptive son, but an action may be brought against him as his representative; and if he declines to defend the latter, the creditors are allowed, by an order of the magistrates having jurisdiction in such cases, to take possession of the property of which the usufruct as well as the ownership would have belonged to the son, had he not subjected himself to the power of another, and to dispose of it in the mode prescribed by law. From Wordnik.com. [The Institutes of Justinian] Reference
State owned, suable, 930. From Wordnik.com. [The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952] Reference
Consuls, suable in, 571-572. From Wordnik.com. [The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952] Reference
Consuls, etc., suable in, 571-572. From Wordnik.com. [The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952] Reference
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