suableadj.

1574 tr. Articles conteining Request presented to French Kyng sig. C.iv^v Where payment hath not bene made, that in y^t case there bond shall remaine not suable and exempt from constraint of Iustice.

a1638 R. Brownlow & J. Gouldsborough Rep. Diverse Cases (1651) Exact Table sig. Kk^v/1 Legacy of Land not suable for in Court Christian.

1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 343 Legacies out of Lands are properly suable in Chancery.

1884 W. E. Grigsby Story's Comm. on Equity Jurispr. 351 Even in the common case of a legacy of personal estate, the legacy does not vest in the legatee, until the executor assents to it; and until he assents, it was not suable in the spiritual courts.

2001 J. Hungelmann Insurance for Dummies iii. 34 If I am injured by a driver with less insurance than he needs to pay for my injuries and no sueable assets, I'm willing to not be compensated fully.

1596 Godlie Instr. in H. Bull's Christian Praiers & Holie Medit. (rev. ed.) 437 If Sathan should summon vs to answere in our debts, and sinnes, in that the wife is no suable [?1578 sutable] person.

a1623 H. Swinburne Treat. Spousals (1686) 120 The Parties contracting Spousals or Matrimony, under any such Conditions, are neither bound, nor suable, until the Condition be extant.

1738 Cases King's Bench William III 45 He cannot plead in Bar ne unques Executor,..because he allows himself to be suable.

1810 J. Marshall Writings upon Federal Constit. (1839) 137 A state which violated its own contract was suable in the courts of the United States.

1823 Examiner 78/2 If not a femme sole, she was not sueable at law.

1903 Times 7 Jan. 6/2 Is a trade union to be regarded as a corporation sueable at law?

2017 Virginia Law Rev. 103 4 Government officers have long been held to be suable in their own right, without the government's immunity.