Viable
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
Capable of living. Viability: capability of living; possibility of continued existence. An infant newly born is said to be viable, if the organs are in such a state of regular conformation and development as to render the infant capable of living. But if an infant, newly born, be affected with such a disease or malformation as to render a continuance of life impossible, the infant is said to be non-viable, and, according to some systems of law, is, so far as regards the transmission of right to legal representatives, as if he had never been born. (Beck; LitM.) Mozley ^ W.