Viable
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States · John Bouvier · 1839
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
vite habilis, capable of living, is said of a child which is born alive in such an advanced state of formation as to be capable of living: unless he is born viable he acquires no rights and cannot transmit them to his heirs, and is considered as if he had never been born. This term is used in the French law, Toull. Dr. Civ. Fr. tome 4, p. 101, it would be well to engraft it on our own.