Definition of "severable" [sev•er•a•ble]

• Capable of being severed or separated; separable into legally distinct rights or obligations, as a contract. (adjective)

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• "The ruling says the "individual mandate," which imposes a fine on individuals who do not purchase health insurance, is unconstitutional and not "severable" from the full law."
• "Though bill sponsor Rep. Cory Gardner, R-Yuma, said state law already allows wind rights to be separated from the surface rights to a piece of private property, the bill would make the law explicit, allowing wind rights to be "severable" from surface rights."
• "The examples Shaw discusses include two ECtHR rulings under the European Convention for Human Rights, where reservations by Switzerland and Turkey were held to be invalid and severable, meaning that the ratification stood but the reservation didn’t, and a “highly controversial” General Comment by the — now abolished — UN Human Rights Committee under the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights.”"