4 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Divisible \Di*vis"i*ble\, a. [L. divisibilis, fr. dividere: cf. F. divisible. See {Divide}.] Capable of being divided or separated. [1913 Webster] Extended substance . . . is divisible into parts. --Sir W. Hamilton. [1913 Webster] {Divisible contract} (Law), a contract containing agreements one of which can be separated from the other. {Divisible offense} (Law), an offense containing a lesser offense in one of a greater grade, so that on the latter there can be an acquittal, while on the former there can be a conviction. -- {Di*vis"i*ble*ness}, n. -- {Di*vis"i*bly}, adv. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Divisible \Di*vis"i*ble\, n. A divisible substance. --Glanvill. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: divisible adj : capable of being or liable to be divided or separated; "even numbers are divisible by two"; "the Americans fought a bloody war to prove that their nation is not divisible" [ant: {indivisible}] From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]: DIVISIBLE. The susceptibility of being divided. 2. A contract cannot, in general, be divided in such a manner that an action may be brought, or a right accrue, on a part of it. 2 Penna. R. 454. But some contracts are susceptible of division, as when a reversioner sells a part of the reversion to one man, and a part to another, each shall have an action for his share of the rent, which may accrue on a contract, to pay a particular rent to the reversioner. 3 Whart. 404; and see Apportionment. But when it is to do several things, at several times, an action will lie upon every default. 15 Pick. R. 409. See 1 Greenl. R. 316; 6 Mass. 344. See Entire.
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