overrulable

English

Etymology

From overrule +‎ -able.

Adjective

overrulable (not comparable)

1. That can be overruled.
   • 1984, Samuel J. Stoljar, An Analysis of Rights‎^[1], London: Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 48, →ISBN:

     On this level of generality we reason about rights not in a doctrinally fixed but in a prima facie way, that is, as qualifiable or overridable, though not (and this is a crucial point) as directly overrulable rights.

   • 2003, Lawrence v. Texas (U.S. Supreme Court No. 02-102), Justice Scalia dissenting:

     That leaves, to distinguish the rock-solid, unamendable disposition of Roe from the readily overrulable Bowers, only the third factor.

   • 2016, Kym Farrand, Morally and Otherwise Right Lives, Education and Upbringing‎^[2], Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 175, →ISBN:

     Any groupist or selfish aggression or competitiveness and so on humans naturally tend to feel is only a tendency or a latent potential, not an inevitability. Emotions here are overrulable or redirectable.