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Issuable

Defined in 7 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Anderson (1889), Stimson (1881)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

In practice. Leading or tending to an issue. An issuable plea is one upon which the plaintiff can take issue and proceed to trial.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

Creating an issue of fact in pleading.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

In Practice. Leading or tending to an issue. An issuable plea is one upon which the plaintiff can take issue and proceed to trial.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

In practice. Leading to or producing an issue; relating to an issue or issues. See Colquitt v. Mercer, 44 Ga. 433.

— Issuable plea. A plea to the merits; a traversable plea. A plea such that the adverse party can join issue upon it and go to tnal. It is true a plea in abatement is a plea, and, if it be properly pleaded, issues may be found on it. In the ordinary meaning of the word "plea," and of the word "issuable," such pleas may be called "issuable pleas," but, when these two words are used together, "issuable plea," or "issuable defense," they have a technical meaning, to-wit, pleas to the merits. Colquitt v. Mercer, 44 Ga. 434

— Issuable terms. In the former practice of the English courts, Hilary term and Trinity term were called "issuable terms," because the issues to be tried at the assizes were made up at those terms. 3 Bl. Comm. 353. But the distinction is superseded by the provisions of the judicature acts of 1873 and 1875.

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

Leading to, or producing an issue; relating to an issue or issues. Issuable plea: a plea in chief to the merits, upon which the plaintiff may take issue, and go to trial.

In English law. Issuable terms: Hilary and Trinity terms, so called, because in them issues are made up for the assizes.

A Dictionary of Law

William C. Anderson · 1889

See Issue, 3.

Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law

Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881

Traversable; producing an