Amenable
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
[from Fr. amener, amesner, to lead; or amcdnablef frorx Lmain, a hand.1 Tractable or manag^ble; that may be led or governed. Applied in the old books to a woman that is govemal^e by her husband. Cowell. ' See Amesnable. In modem usage, responsible; subject to answer in a court of justice. Jacob,