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Actionable

Giving sufficient legal grounds for a lawsuit; giving rise to a CAUSE OF ACTION.

An act, event, or occurrence is said to be actionable when there are legal grounds for basing a lawsuit on it. For example, an assault is an actionable TORT.

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