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enforceability

enforceability

1 6.5
How easily a rule or agreement can be made to work by the courts
  • noun
  • /ɪnˌfɔrsəˈbɪlɪti/
  • Specialized
translation icon : ejecutabilidad
  • The court ruled on the enforceability of the contract after reviewing the evidence.
  • contract enforceability
  • enforceability of the agreement
  • questions of enforceability

Examples

  • Brazil's rural credit crisis in 1995 demonstrated the country's serious problems of contract enforceability.

    Academic text (1998)
  • But, in most jurisdictions, Scott points out, the enforceability of such agreements is open to serious doubt.

    Academic text (1996)
  • Some of the above issues address the topic of contract enforceability, but there are several other dimensions to this problem.

    Academic text (1998)
  • The current context of enforceability must be examined as it stands in both countries.

    Academic text (1991)
  • The effectiveness and enforceability of such an arrangement may be a problem, however.

    Academic text (1998)
  • If a promise is not commodified, then this is a strong reason against its enforceability in contract law.

    Academic text (2018)
  • Part IV focuses on the legal issues affecting the enforceability of development agreements.

    Academic text (2001)
  • To most American lawyers, the creation of constitutionally protected social rights raises problems of enforceability.

    Academic text (1991)
  • The fourth element of the Kirtland's warbler CMA is the enforceability of the agreement.

    Academic text (2012)
  • CCP also recommends reforming the doctrine of consideration from a formal requirement of enforceability, as it is often understood, to a presumption of enforceability.

    Academic text (2018)

Synonyms

validity
vsenforceability
  • Formal
18 4.9

Legal force that makes a document or agreement binding

emphasizes the ability to be applied or enforced under law
bindingness
vsenforceability
  • Formal
8.7

How strongly a law, rule and moral duty must be followed

focuses on being able to be made effective by law or rule
validness
vsenforceability
  • Formal
5.5

How acceptable and effective something is under the law

is about being able to be enforced rather than mere acceptability
executability
vsenforceability
8.6

How easy it is to carry out a plan or action

focuses specifically on legal force to make actions mandatory

Antonyms

8.8

A situation in which the law cannot make people follow a rule or contract

How Enforceable

enforceability
  • Specialized
1 6.5
unenforceability
  • Formal
8.8

Surface Forms

Morphology

enforceability = enforceable (transparent) = en + force + able + ity

The noun is a regular -ity nominalization of the adjective 'enforceable', preserving its meaning.

Etymology

Enforceability breaks into en- 'put into', force 'strength or power', and -ability 'can'. So enforceability means whether a rule or law 'can' be made to work by using power or official action.