Capable of being determined, fixed, or ascertained with certainty; able to be clearly defined or decided upon: as, a determinable quantity; the meaning of Plato's expression is not determinable.
In law: Subject to premature termination: as, a lease determinable at the option of the lessor.
Liable to be terminated by a contingency yet uncertain or unknown: as, a determinable fee.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
adjective Capable of being determined, definitely ascertained, decided upon, or brought to a conclusion.
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adjective Able to be determined or limited
adjective law Able to be decided or settled by law
noun philosophy An attribute of something that is suceptible of determination into various states
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adjective capable of being determined or limited or fixed
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In the Meno (74ff), Plato develops the notion of determinable and determinate.
The language of the grant was conditional, but not durational, so what we have is a fee simple subject to condition subsequent, and not a fee simple determinable.
There are so many wonders to behold, but your gaze will perhaps first be drawn up to the ceiling, which offers a singular treasure: an herbarium, depicting 578 acribically exact and botanically determinable plants, mostly medicinal, but also decorative plants, painted between 1614 and 1617, when the new nave was vaulted by Lazaro Agostino after a devastating fire in 1610.
I caution you to realize that neither the first or second true statement means that the Israeli leadership has neither a “Grand Strategy” or a set of determinable goals.
The Dodd-Frank law is so vaguely written that, as former top Fed lawyer Michael Bleier points out, 'the overall economic and financial circumstances in which a hypothetical failure will occur are not determinable, even where many aspects of a firm's structure and operations are': Without knowing what caused the distress leading to the 'failure', it will be difficult for a firm to establish that its resolution plan will actually prevent further distress.
The language of the grant was conditional, but not durational, so what we have is a fee simple subject to condition subsequent, and not a fee simple determinable.
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