"Actionable" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... case the prose or verse of the above should be actionable, I put my name, that the man may rather proceed against me than the publisher—not without some faint hope that the brand with which I blast him may induce him, however reluctantly, to ...
— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 6 • Lord Byron
... other poor mortals like myself expect? It is true he has avoided actionable expressions, while Professor Steinthal has not, at least, according to German and English law. But suppose that hereafter, when certain small animals have crossed what he calls "the impervious distance," and acquired the power of language, they were to say, "We ...
— Chips from a German Workshop - Volume IV - Essays chiefly on the Science of Language • Max Muller
... wonder if it is characteristic of a lady of high descent to open the envelope of a letter left on her mantelpiece and take out the letter? I wonder, further, if it were not a breach of the law, and what the lawyers call 'actionable'?" ...
— Her Mother's Secret • Emma D. E. N. Southworth
... Luke Tweezy. "Actionable, that is. Mustn't threaten a man's life, Racey. Against the ...
— The Heart of the Range • William Patterson White
... the law, make the law a dead letter, take the law into one's own hands. smuggle, run, poach. Adj. illegal[contrary to law], unlawful, illegitimate; not allowed, prohibited &c. 761; illicit, contraband; actionable. unwarranted, unwarrantable; unauthorized; informal, unofficial; injudicial[obs3], extrajudicial. lawless, arbitrary; despotic, despotical[obs3]; corrupt, summary, irresponsible; unanswerable, unaccountable. [of invalid or expired law] expired, invalid; unchartered, unconstitutional; ...
— Roget's Thesaurus
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