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Voidable   Listen
adjective
Voidable  adj.  
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." 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.






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"Voidable" Quotes from Famous Books



... elements, implicit or explicit, in a marriage; that was well recognized even by the Canonists. But when we treat marriage as all contract, and nothing but contract, we have to realize that we have set up a very peculiar form of contract, not voidable, like other contracts, by the agreement of the parties to it, but dissoluble as a sort of punishment of delinquency rather than by the voluntary annulment of a bond.[356] When the Protestant Reformers ...
— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis



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