colourable BrE
colorable AmE

Sir, tell not me of the father; I do fear colourable colours.

The Court found the Act was not colourable.

In style it is a colourable imitation of Bolingbroke.

Major rejected the argument that the law was a "colourable" attempt to enact criminal law.

Heke, having a colourable right to recover his slave.

Laws can be disguised (known as "colourable law") as criminal in order to intrude on provincial authority.

Colorable or colourable may refer to:

Laskin found that the law was "colourable", as its true purpose was not to keep the streets safe but to control or punish prostitution.

It can sometimes be difficult to distinguish between an imaginary country, which does not even attempt to make any colourable claim to sovereignty, and a micronation, which does.

Finally, they have attempted to prove nine-regular planar graphs are edge colourable, but were unable to because it appears to be much more difficult than the eight-regular case.

In the 1930s some radios were manufactured using Catalin, a colourable version of bakelite, but nearly all historic bakelite radios are the standard black-brown bakelite colour.

The effects can also reveal whether a law is "colourable", i.e. does the law in form appear to address something within the legislature's jurisdiction, but in substance deal with a matter outside that jurisdiction?

Víctor Neumann-Lara, N. Santorro, Jorge Urrutia "Uniquely colourable m-dichromatic oriented graphs" Discrete Math.

The plaintiffs argued that the Act was "colourable" legislation (i.e. law that had a hidden purpose), and that its true purpose concerned freedom of religion, which is a matter within the exclusive jurisdiction of the federal government.

The Divisional Court thought it 'clear to everyone, and to the justices in particular, that any suggestion of peaceful picketing was a colourable pretence and that it was a question of picketing by intimidation and threat'.

Smith LJ concurred, saying if the consideration is 'not clearly colourable nor illusory, then, in my judgment, the adequacy of the consideration cannot be impeached by a liquidator unless the contract can also be impeached'.

After a week in which the parties were given a chance to make amends outside of court, the book in question was ruled a colourable shortening, created only to circumvent the law, and thus was an infringement of Gyles' printing rights.

Factors which applied to the lender included the degree of risk he accepted having regard to the value of the security provided, his relationship to the debtor and 'whether or not a colourable cash price was quoted for any goods or services included in the credit bargain.'

No person can use the emblem or any colourable imitation in a manner so as to create an impression that it is associated with or an official document of the Central Government or State Government, as the case may be, without taking permission of the appropriate government.

In addressing the municipality's argument that the residency requirement was merely a private employment contract and not a governmental function, La Forest J. found that once a body is labeled governmental, that body cannot use colourable devices or organize activities to avoid Charter responsibility.

He does, however, reckon there is a strong case - or a "colourable claim" as he calls it - against Fuld and the firm's three finance chiefs in its final 12 months: Chris O'Meara, Erin Callan and Ian Lowitt.

A special case of the Hicolour mode involves alternating between the two available colours per attribute cell for 4 pixels each, allowing each 4x1 region to be treated as an independently colourable 'pixel' (although the limitation of one brightness level per 8x1 cell is still in effect).

The extent of the encroachment on matters beyond its competence may be an element in determining whether the legislation is colourable, that is, whether in the guise of making a law on a matter within its competence, the legislature is, in truth, making a law on a subject beyond its competence.

What about the cocaine mafia that appears to have a colorable claim to being the effective government of Colombia?

The President's assertion that he simply was "trying to understand what the facts were" lacks even colorable credibility.

"The defense may have a colorable argument."

Infringement cases do not require actual imitation; only a colorable one, likely to confuse the public.

Ironjoy may have a colorable claim to the property."

The colorable defense section would not be too bad if it was clear that the entire board would learn the details, including the original lawyer's report.

Something that gives me a colorable right to act in her interests up to the point where I decided I can't go any farther."

The crux of this test involved determining whether there is "more than a colorable difference" between the original infringing product and the redesign.

In the opinion of the Examiner, "colorable" is generally meant to mean that sufficient evidence exists to support legal action and possible recovery of losses.

Empty graphs, paths, and cycles of length divisible by 3 are uniquely total colorable graphs.

Colorable or colourable may refer to:

"Yet, like a ghost reluctant to accept its eternal rest, the 'colorable argument' surfaced again" in White's Byrd concurrence.

A complete graph is uniquely colorable, because the only proper coloring is one that assigns each vertex a different color.

He said that Mr. Herrera had a "colorable claim of innocence," meaning one that was theoretically plausible.

"The Court never mentions what colorable constitutional claims these aliens, illegally present in the United States, could have had that demand judicial review," he said.

Every k-tree is uniquely (k + 1)-colorable.

The deletion of any vertex from a minimal imperfect graph leaves a uniquely colorable subgraph.

I do things which ought to try man's patience, but they never seem to try his; he always finds a colorable excuse for what I have done.

"It seems colorable enough. . ..

As to Stewart's "colorable argument", Douglas reiterated Wilkos wariness towards arbitration.

Case law has evolved two kinds of tests in determining whether or not colorable imitation exists - the dominancy test and the holistic test.

Even if he still thinks a violation is occurring, he can back down if another lawyer opines that there is a "colorable defense" for the company.

A uniquely total colorable graph is a k-total-chromatic graph that has only one possible (proper) k-total-coloring up to permutation of the colors.

The first step of the KSM test was to determine whether there was a "colorable" difference between the infringing and modified products.

They would contain various exceptions to powers which are not granted; and on this very account, would afford a colorable pretext to claim more than were granted.