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Definition of Disputable

1. Adjective. Capable of being disproved.

2. Adjective. Open to argument or debate. "That is a moot question"

Definition of Disputable

1. a. Capable of being disputed; liable to be called in question, controverted, or contested; or doubtful certainty or propriety; controvertible; as, disputable opinions, propositions, points, or questions.

Definition of Disputable

1. Adjective. Of opinions, propositions or questions, subject to dispute; not settled. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Disputable

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Disputable

dispurpose dispurposed dispurposes dispurposing dispurse dispursed dispurses dispursing dispurvey dispurveyance

dispurveyed dispurveying dispurveys disputability disputable (current term) disputableness disputably disputacity disputant disputants

disputation disputations disputatious disputatiously disputatiousness disputative dispute dispute resolution dispute resolution organization

Literary usage of Disputable

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Code of Civil Procedure of the State of California: Adopted March 11 by California, Walter Scott Brann (1905)
"disputable, money paid to a person was due, § 1963. disputable ... disputable, payment of earlier rent and installments on production of later receipt, ..."

2. The Codes and Statutes of California, as Amended and in Force at the Close ...by California, Frank P. Deering by California, Frank P. Deering (1886)
"... marriage.. iii, 1963 presumption, disputable, negligence from accident by carrier, ... disputable, jury must find according to iii, 1961 prima facie, ..."

3. An Illustrated Treatise on the Law of Evidence by Thomas Welburn Hughes (1905)
"Presumptions of law are subdivided into two classes: (1) Conclusive Presumptions of Law; (2) disputable Presumptions of Law. § 6. Presumptions of law. ..."

4. The Law of Evidence in Civil Cases by Burr W. Jones (1908)
"Presumptions of law—Conclusive and disputable. ... Presumptions of law are generally divided into two classes, conclusive and disputable. ..."

5. Commentaries on the Law of Evidence in Civil Cases by Burr W. Jones, Louis Horwitz (1913)
"Presumptions of law—Conclusive and disputable.—Presumptions of law are generally divided into two classes, conclusive and disputable. ..."

6. Trial Evidence: The Rules of Evidence and of the Conduct of the Examination by William Reynolds (1911)
"Except where a disputable presumption of law exists in his favor.—To this rule, throwing the burden of proof upon the party who substantially asserts the ..."

7. Herodotus: the fourth, fifth, and sixth books by Herodotus, Reginald Walter Macan (1895)
"... seems well to supplement an imperfect and disputable Analysis by a fuller one, based upon sub-divisions, into which the story naturally falls, ..."

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