suable

• “Since the time of Edward I, the crown of England has not been suable unless it has specifically consented to suit.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Conservative Assault on the Constitution

• “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.”

  When do you not mind breaking the law?

• “When do notes payable on demand, or in which no time of payment is mentioned, become due and suable?”

  The Government Class Book Designed for the Instruction of Youth in the Principles of Constitutional Government and the Rights and Duties of Citizens.

• “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.”

  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

• “-- Restating the constitutional principles currently applicable for determining whether individuals, resident and nonresident, are suable in _in personam_ actions, the Supreme Court in”

  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

• “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.”

  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

• “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.”

  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

• “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.”

  The Institutes of Justinian

• “The principal contracts known to the common law and suable in the”

  The Common Law

• “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.”

  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

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