0 If a rule or law is unenforceable, it is impossible to force people to obey it. --
1 an unenforceable law or system cannot be accepted as legal in a court of law: --
2 that people cannot be made to obey, or that cannot be made to work effectively: --
Indeed, it was unenforceable against short-term noise from muffled, unsilenced compressors.
Does he agree that the complete absence of any prosecutions to date demonstrates that the ban is unmanageable, unfair and unenforceable?
Recognising that the scheme was uncontrollable and unenforceable it was swiftly quashed.
A frequent criticism of international law is that it is unenforceable in two senses; it has neither the ability to punish violations nor the ability to enforce compliance.
Common law, however, has trouble with friendship and has historically taken the view that agreements between friends are unenforceable for lack of intention to create legal relations.
In these circumstances, the court can find the statute severable and enforce it as applied to the challenger, or find it nonseverable and therefore unenforceable in any of its applications.
And the disciplinary aspects of socialisation - monitoring behaviour, and excluding group members for breaches of club rules - are both unpalatable and unenforceable outside the esoteric confines of sectarian religion.
Since these arrangements could usually not bear scrutiny on many other grounds, rendering such contracts unenforceable in a court of law was equivalent to no punishment at all. 40.
