What is AMENABLE? Definition of AMENABLE in Black's Law Dictionary
Subject to answer to the law; accountable; responsible; liable to punishment. Pickelsimer v. Glazener, 173 N.C. 630, 92 S.E. 700, 704.
Also means tractable, that may be easily led or governed; formerly applied to a wife who is governable by her husband. Cowell.
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