supersedableadj.

1681 W. Atwood Confut. in Jus Anglorum i. 31 Though 'tis a Right according to the common Rules of Law, yet 'tis supersedable by Prerogative.

1729 Rules & Orders King's Bench Prison 14 That if any Prisoner..be charg'd with one Action only, and such Action be supersedable, that the same be superseded with the Money belonging to the Prisoners.

1776 R. Richardson Attorney's Pract. Court King's Bench (ed. 6) 1 Index Bankrupt, supersedeable on first summons, 152.

1779 Ann. Reg., Chron. 216/2 Numbers of them had been long supersedable, or intitled to their discharges under insolvent acts.

1801 T. Cooper Bankrupt Law Amer. vii. 171 Commission is supercedeable if not prosecuted within 14 days if in London, and 28 days in the country: one day more to elapse before the order of Supersedeas.

1831–2 in T. Chitty Archbold's Pract. Court Queen's Bench (1838) II. 915 All prisoners who have been..in the custody of the marshal or warden for the space of one calendar month after they are supersedeable, although not superseded, shall be forthwith discharged.

1844 Times 23 Jan. 6/7 No fiat should be supersedable by reason of concert only in its issue.

1929 T. Shepherd & J. Elmes London in 19th Cent. 134 Prisoners who are supersedable have their rooms taken from them.

1949 Jrnl. Philos. 46 16 The greatest contribution to knowledge is in principle supersedable.

2000 J. M. Hill in J. M. Hill & D. M. Sinnreich-Levi Rhetorical Poetics Middle Ages Introd. 13 Human agents operating inventively within the variable and, to some extent, supercedable norms of literary competence peculiar to given traditions of story or song.