severable

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S0296100 (sĕv′ər-ə-bəl, sĕv′rə-)adj.1. Capable of being severed or separated.2. Law Capable of being separated into legally distinct rights or obligations that can be enforced independently, as in a contract where not all promises must be performed before legal action can be taken to enforce some portion.

sev′er·a·bil′i·ty n.

severable

(ˈsɛvərəbəl) adj1. able to be severed2. (Law) law capable of being separated, as a clause in an agreement: a severable contract.

sev•er•a•ble

(ˈsɛv ər ə bəl, ˈsɛv rə-)

adj. 1. capable of being severed. 2. Law. separable or capable of being treated as separate from a whole legal right or obligation. [1540–50] sev`er•a•bil′i•ty, n.

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Adj.

severable - capable of being divided or dissociated; "often drugs and crime are not dissociable"; "the siamese twins were not considered separable"; "a song...never conceived of as severable from the melody";dissociable, separabledivisible - capable of being or liable to be divided or separated; "even numbers are divisible by two"; "the Americans fought a bloody war to prove that their nation is not divisible"

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Severable

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Related to Severable: severable contract

Severable

That which is capable of being separated from other things to which it is joined and maintaining nonetheless a complete and independent existence.

The term severable is used to describe a contract that can be divided and apportioned into two or more parts that are not necessarily dependent upon each other. For example, a seller accepted a buyer's order for sixty dozen hats and caps of different sizes and colors. He shipped all but five dozen to the buyer, who then refused to accept the order. The seller brought an action against the buyer for breach of contract. There was no evidence to show that the contract called for delivery of the whole order at one time. The court held that the buyer could not escape liability because the seller had failed to ship five dozen hats and caps, since the order calling for hats and caps of different patterns, sizes, and colors constituted a "severable contract."

The term severable is also used in connection with statutes. A severable statute is one that after an invalid portion of it has been stricken remains self-sustaining and capable of separate enforcement without regard to the stricken provisions.

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adj capable of being divided or dissociated

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