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Definition of Actionable
1. Adjective. Affording grounds for legal action. "Slander is an actionable offense"
Definition of Actionable
1. a. That may be the subject of an action or suit at law; as, to call a man a thief is actionable.
Definition of Actionable
1. Adjective. (legal) Affording grounds for legal action. ¹
2. Adjective. (management) Capable of being articulated as an action item or a set of action items. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Actionable
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Actionable
Literary usage of Actionable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1906)
"App. 17, it wag held that the expressions "bitch" and "whore," in common parlance,
do not impute unchastity, and therefore are not actionable; ..."
2. An Abridgement of the Law of Nisi Prius by William Selwyn, Edward E. Law, Henry Wheaton, Thomas Isaac Wharton (1857)
"To say to a witness who has just given his testimony in a justice's court "You
have sworn a manifest lie," is actionable. Kean v. ..."
3. A Treatise on the Wrongs Called Slander and Libel, and on the Remedy by by John Townshend (1890)
"WHAT LANGUAGE IS actionable. Language must be such as does or does not occasion
damage— What is meant by actionable per se, and actionable by reason of ..."
4. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by David Shephard Garland, John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie (1890)
"If the words are not actionable in themselves, special damages must be proved.1 This
might be done by the mere force and effect of the words used ; or words ..."
5. The Law of Libel and Slander in Civil and Criminal Cases: As Administered in by Martin L. Newell (1898)
"To say of a magistrate, " He is a damned rogue," is not actionable unless ...
It is not actionable to charge a man with keeping false books of account ..."
6. A Manual of Elementary Law: Being a Summary of the Well-settled Elementary by William Pinckney Fishback (1896)
"If the statement be made in the past tense, it is not actionable per se under
this class. § 310. ... Slanders actionable only by reason of special damages. ..."
7. A Treatise on the Law of Torts by Charles Greenstreet Addison, Horace Gay Wood (1876)
"SECTION I.—Of actionable Wrongs and Injuries that are Not actionable. ...
Hiding of prospect not actionable. {>. Selling diseased animals not actionable, ..."
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