a. [f. ACTION sb. 8 + -ABLE.] Subject or liable to an action at law; of such a character that an action on account of it will lie.
1591. Lambarde, Archeion (1635), 90. Baited, and bitten with libells and slanders that be not actionable.
1691. Shadwell, Scowrers, II. Wks. IV. 331. Have a care what you say, Sir, your words will be actionable.
1768. Blackstone, Comm., III. 217. This … is no injury to the sufferer, and is therefore not an actionable nusance.
1778. Miss Burney, Evelina, ix. (1784), II. 71. Everybody agreed that the illusage the Captain had given her was actionable.
1848. Arnould, Mar. Insur., I. iv. (1866), I. 160. Guilty of actionable negligence.
