单词 | actionably |
释义 | actionablyadv. So as to give cause for legal action. ΚΠ 1792 R. Wooddeson Systematical View Laws of Eng. I. xvi. 444 If she be assaulted and beaten, falsely..imprisoned, actionably slandered, or maliciously indicted. 1870 Times 5 Dec. 11/2 The witness was pressed as to whether it was not his intention to write libellously or defamatorily, without writing actionably. 1906 Washington Post 7 Mar. ii. 1/3 Justice Duell..held that the appellee was not actionably negligent in maintaining an unprotected pond on her premises. 1952 Stanford Law Rev. 4 311 The class of persons entitled to actionably rely on false statements is not the narrow or restricted class of Peek v. Gurney. 1999 F. Achampong Workplace Sexual Harassment Law iii. xi. 143 Cases have established few definite rules for determining when an employer will be liable for a discriminatory environment that is otherwise actionably abusive. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adv.1792 |
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