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voidable


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Voidable  \Void"a*ble\,  a. 
  1.  Capable  of  being  voided,  or  evacuated. 
 
  2.  (Law)  Capable  of  being  avoided,  or  of  being  adjudged  void, 
  invalid,  and  of  no  force;  capable  of  being  either  avoided 
  or  confirmed. 
 
  If  the  metropolitan  .  .  .  grants  letters  of 
  administration,  such  administration  is  not  but 
  voidable  by  sentence.  --Ayliffe. 
 
  Note:  A  voidable  contract  may  be  ratified  and  confirmed;  to 
  render  it  null  and  of  no  effect,  it  must  be  avoided;  a 
  void  contract  can  not  be  ratified. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  voidable 
  adj  :  capable  of  being  rescinded  or  voided;  "the  judgment  was 
  rescindable";  "voidable  contracts"  [syn:  {rescindable}] 




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