Definition of Pursuable

1. a. Capable of being, or fit to be, pursued, followed, or prosecuted.

Definition of Pursuable

1. Adjective. Able to be pursued or followed. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pursuable

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pursuable

pursewed
pursewing
pursews
pursier
pursiest
pursily
pursiness
pursinesses
pursing
purslain
purslains
purslane
purslane family
purslane speedwell
purslanes
pursuable (current term)
pursual
pursuals
pursuance
pursuances
pursuant
pursuant(p)
pursuantly
pursuaunt
pursue
pursued
pursuee
pursuees
pursuer
pursuers

Literary usage of Pursuable

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

1. Lectures on jurisprudence or the philosophy of positive law by John Austin (1885)
"pursuable before the Tribunals of Correctional Police. I Called Delicts. Crimes attributed to the Tribunals of Police, and pursuable by processes which are ..."

2. Lectures on Jurisprudence: Or, The Philosophy of Positive Law by John Austin (1873)
"pursuable before the Tribunals of Correctional Police. ... Eg Crimes pursuable summarily before Justices of the Peace, or before Commissioners of the Excise ..."

3. Lectures on Jurisprudence, Or, The Philosophy of Positive Law by John Austin (1885)
"pursuable before the Tribunals of Correctional Police. pursuable before the Tribunals of Simple Police (01 Tribunals of Police). I Called Delicts. ..."

4. The Province of Jurisprudence Determined: Being the First Part of a Series by John Austin, Sarah Austin (1863)
"CRIMES attributed to extraordinary (or exceptional) tribunals, and pursuable by extraordinary (or exceptional) processes. Eg Crimes pursuable summarily ..."

5. The Works of James Harris, Esq. by James Harris, James Harris Malmesbury (1841)
"But if nothing pursuable, then nothing avoidable or indifferent, but what is tried and ... So the same mental habitudes, of things avoidable and pursuable. ..."

6. The Works of James Harris, Esq. by James Harris (1841)
"of either pursuable, avoidable, or indifferent. To determine these relations with accuracy, we have been scrutinizing the human nature; and that, ..."

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