a. Now chiefly U.S. [f. SUE v. + -ABLE.] Capable of being sued, liable to be sued; legally subject to civil process.
a. 1623. Swinburne, Treat. Spousals (1686), 120. The Parties contracting Spousals or Matrimony, under any such Conditions, are neither bound, nor suable, until the Condition be extant.
1693. Mod. Rep., XII. Case 93. 45. He cannot plead in bar ne unques executor,… because he allows himself to be suable.
1810. J. Marshall, Const. Opin. (1839), 137. A state which violated its own contract was suable in the courts of the United States.
1875. Poste, Gaius, II. § 282. A trustee is only suable for the simple amount of the subject of trust.
b. Capable of being sued for.
1726. Ayliffe, Parergon, 343. Legacies out of Lands are properly suable in Chancery.
