indispensable
Defined in 2 dictionaries — Case Law, Black's (1910)
Definitions from Case Law
From 574 U.S. 27 - Integrity Staffing Solutions, Inc. v. Busk · 2014Most cited · 28 citing opinions
a duty "[t]hat cannot be dispensed with, remitted, set aside, disregarded, or neglected." 5 OED 219; accord, Brief for United States 19; see also Webster's Second 1267 ("[n]ot capable of being dispensed with, set aside, neglected, or pronounced nonobligatory").
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
That which cannot be spared, omitted or dispensed with.
— Indispensable evidence. See Evidence.
— Indispensable parties. In a suit in equity, those who not only have an interest in the subject-matter of the controversy, but an interest of such a nature that a final decree cannot be made without either affecting their interests or leaving the controversy in such a condition that its final determination may be wholly inconsistent with equity and good conscience. Shields v. Barrow, 17 How. 139, 15 L. Ed. 158 ; Ken-dig v. Dean, 07 U. S. 425, 24 L. Ed. 1061; Mallow v. Hinde, 12 Wheat. 193, 6 In Ed. 599.