a. (sb.) [a. AF. and OF. (F.) justiciable amenable to a jurisdiction, used also as sb., f. justicier to JUSTICE: cf. med.L. justitiābilis.] Liable to be tried in a court of justice; subject to jurisdiction.
[1370. Rolls Parlt. Queux ne sont mye justiciables en touz cas.]
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Justiciable (Fr.), under jurisdiction, subject to suit or Laws, that is to do his suit to the court of another.
1755. Johnson, Justiciable, proper to be examined in courts of justice.
1836. Wheaton, Elem. Internat. Law, II. ii. (1855), 175. Criminal offences … are justiciable only by the courts of that country where the offence is committed.
1888. Bryce, Amer. Commw., I. 323. Offences against Federal statutes are justiciable in Federal courts.
B. sb. One who is subject to the jurisdiction (of another).
1897. F. W. Maitland, Domesday & Beyond, 125. He can prevent the king’s officers from entering his precinct and meddling with his justiciables.
1900. Athenæum, 5 May, 556/3. Remedies which shall satisfy his justiciables that their position is … positively enviable.
Hence Justiciability, the quality or fact of being justiciable.
1802. Bentham, Judicial Procedure, i. Wks. 1843, II. 9/1. Under the name of security for eventual justiciability.
1888. Traill, William III., 97. Exclusive privileges in the matter of justiciability which were possessed by the Peers.
