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Definition of Colorable
1. a. Specious; plausible; having an appearance of right or justice.
Definition of Colorable
1. Adjective. (American English) (alternative spelling of colourable) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Colorable
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Colorable
Literary usage of Colorable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1886)
"This opened wide the door for frauda upon the jurisdiction of the court by
collusive transfers, so as to make colorable parties and create cases cognizable ..."
2. The Law of Collateral Attack on Judicial Proceedings by John McKee Van Fleet (1892)
"colorable allegations.—An affidavit for an arrest in a civil case,4 or a petition
for a tie exeat,6 which makes a colorable charge of fraud, or which tends ..."
3. A Compendium of the Law and Practice of Injunctions: And of Interlocutory by Baron Robert Henley Eden Henley, Thomas Whitney Waterman (1852)
"(2 Atk. 143 :) but a mere colorable curtailment of an original work is an evasion
of the statutory law, and is treated as a piracy. Giles v. ..."
4. A Treatise on the Power and Duty of an Arbitrator, and the Law of by Francis Russell (1849)
"... unless delivered as a • •IT seal no dcti(\^ kut js merely a writing under hand
and seal (k). colorable n- Effect of a colorable award. ..."
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