unenforceability
- noun
- /ˌʌnɪnˈfɔːrsəˈbɪlɪti/
- Formal
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inexigibilidad
- They predicted that unenforceability would neither deter powerful market players from taking advantage of powerless people, nor decrease the amount of unconscionable contracts.
Examples
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Even earlier, albeit without reference to its English origins, the term "unconscionability" was already in use by American courts as a defined legal reason for unenforceability.
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The literature goes so far as to argue that the opposite is conceivable: that the enforceability of unconscionable contracts (as opposed to their unenforceability) is itself the judicial response that would carry a negative impact.
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But at the same time, racial undecidability and legal unenforceability created demands for additional and more precise forms of racial knowledge and other modalities of governance.
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They argue that stronger parties will respond to unenforceability by using even harsher terms the next time around, choosing to further raise their prices, or refraining from dealing with weaker parties altogether.
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Third, the pro-conscience literature counters the prediction of legal economists regarding the future impact of enforceability decisions, rejecting the assumption that unenforceability may make things worse.
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The fact that ipso facto clauses are in fact written at some cost to the parties despite unenforceability evinces the intensity of the parties' desire to treat a bankruptcy petition as a moment of reckoning.
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Additionally, pro-conscience literature offers several important counterarguments to legal economists' main and most deterring objection—that unenforceability would not help and instead harm the less powerful parties who seek its protection.
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The lawyer explained that the unenforceability of the contract made it invalid in court.
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The judge ruled on the unenforceability of the agreement due to its ambiguous terms.
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Many businesses avoid certain clauses because of their potential unenforceability in legal disputes.
Antonyms
How Enforceable
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Surface Forms
Morphology
unenforceability = unenforceable (transparent) = un + enforce + able + ity
Standard noun formation from the adjective 'unenforceable' by adding '-ity'; the relation is directly derivable.
Etymology
Unenforceability breaks into un- ('not'), enforce (from force, 'to make someone obey'), and -ability ('ability'). So unenforceability is the 'not ability to make a rule, contract, or law work', meaning something that cannot be enforced by authority.