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Amenable

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

Subject to answer to the Jaw; accountable; responsible; liable to pun-lshment.

Miller v. Com., 1 Duv. (Ky.) 17.

Also means tractable, that may be easily led or governed: formerly applied to a wife who is governable by her husband.

Cowell.