a. Obs. [f. L. arbitrā-ri to judge, decide + -BLE.] Subject to the decision of an arbiter, arbitrator, or other constituted authority; discretionary.
1531. Dial. Laws Eng., II. viii. (1638), 73. Damages be arbitrable, and not certaine no more then trespasse is.
1581. Lambarde, Eiren., IV. ii. (1588), 380. The place of holding them [sessions] is arbitrable, and at the pleasure of the Justices themselves.
1649. Bp. Hall, Cases Consc., I. (1654), 4. The value of moneys … is arbitrable according to the soveraigne authority.
c. 1650. in Somers, Tracts, I. 504. Fines of such Copy-holds of Inheritance are arbitrable upon every Descent and Alienation.
1706. Phillips, Arbitrable, that may be put to, or decided by Arbitration. [So in Bailey.]
