TRI'ABLE, adjective [from try.] That may be tried; that may be subjected to trial or test. 1. That may undergo a judicial examination; that may properly come under the cognizance of a court. A cause may be triable before one court, which is not triable in another. In England, testamentary causes are triable in the ecclesiastical courts.
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