unenforceable in English

adjective
1
(especially of an obligation or law) impossible to enforce.
It is a criminological commonplace that it is counter-productive to pass unenforceable laws because this breeds general contempt for the law.

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1. The United States and Britain said it would unenforceable.

2. An unenforceable contract is one where all the essential elements are present.

3. Participating mortgages, formerly thought to be unenforceable, can now be used.

4. Such informal arrangements (commonly referred to as “Buckshee leases”), are illegal and unenforceable

5. Elsewhere they dragged their feet until it became clear that the laws were unenforceable.

6. We have a national certification program for positions in hotels but they are unenforceable.

7. These sumptuary laws proved unenforceable, but the wider labour laws continued to be firmly applied.

8. The Constitution, which includes guarantees of free speech and human rights, is unenforceable in court.

9. The Constitution, which includes guarantees of free speech and human rights, unenforceable in court.

10. The effect of the ruling was to render most existing restrictions on abortion unenforceable.

11. Certain Boilerplate provisions in consumer contracts are often unenforceable because they are deemed unconscionable, especially when …

12. If a contract is made against public policy, it is often said unconscionable and therefore unenforceable.

13. The populace took comfort in the fact that the law was unenforceable; there simply weren't enough lamp posts.

14. Its social programs can fail to work, its businesses can fail to produce, its laws can become unenforceable.

15. If so, is the excision of the unenforceable part capable of being achieved without other addition or modification?

16. The “Blue pencil rule” permits a court to modify an otherwise unenforceable restrictive covenant to make its restriction reasonable

17. General. If any provision of this agreement is held to be unenforceable, that shall not affect the enforceability of the remaining provisions.

18. The unenforceable provision is capable of being removed without the necessity of adding or modifying the wording of what remains (the Blue pencil test)

19. Caplan points to Internet bidding wars for eggs, a lack of standards in genetic screening of embryos,[Sentence dictionary] and unenforceable contracts with surrogate mothers.