repealableadj.

1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 762/2 All their liberties, which were not repealed, or repealeable by the common law.

1614 J. Budden tr. P. Ayrault Disc. Parents Honour 11 What he commands is constant and perpetuall, but our lawes bee mutable and repealeable.

1675 R. Allestree Art Contentm. vi. 109 Even that decision also would have bin repelable by a greater force.

1725 T. Bullock Reasoning of Christ & Apostles v. 169 They were Laws in their own nature repealable; the End of their Institution is ceased, and therefore they ought to be repealed.

1790 N. Webster Coll. Ess. & Fugitiv Writings iv. 54 There is no constitution in the State, except its laws, which are always repealable by an ordinary Legislature.

1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present iii. viii. 238 An..act of Heaven's Parliament, not repealable in St. Stephen's or elsewhere!

1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. I. xxxi. 479 These rules are sometimes..passed by Congress and repealable by Congress.

1927 Univ. Pennsylvania Law Rev. 75 600 One's natural impulse is to say that a repealable charter cannot be a contract.

1995 Miami Herald (Nexis) 25 Mar. a22 Its enlargement of presidential veto power would simply be an act of Congress, repealable by Congress if it works badly.

1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Repealability, the quality of being repealable.

1906 Amer. Law Rev. 40 187 This principle, of the repealability of a charter, passed, with sovereignty, to New Hampshire.

1996 Independent (Nexis) 2 June 19 The repeal of the European Communities Act 1972 should be straightforward. Indeed, at the time the Heath government made much of its repealability.

1657 J. Tombes Anti-pædobaptism: 3rd Pt. lxii. 435 (heading) Mr. Bs. 9th. and 10th. Qu. about the repealableness and repeal of his imagined Law of infants visible Churchmembership, and his eight additionals are answered.

1841 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Repealableness, the quality or state of being repealable.]