Talk:opposable

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...seems to have some specific meaning in law which I can't quite pin down. Can anyone explain it? Here are a few instances: And so on. Something along the lines of ‘able to be enforced’..? Ƿidsiþ 11:45, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Under Belgian law, pledgor and pledgee establish a valid and opposable security over the credit claim...
 * ...the retention title should be valid, or more correctly, opposable only to the creditors of the purchaser, only if it has a sure date and earlier in reference with any distraint.
 * Under the same conditions there shall also be opposable against third parties the real rights obtained by State...


 * It seems to mean something like " Able to be enforced against competing claims (of)". I found this b.g.c. hit very helpful; it uses "[a] right [that is] opposable (to)" in parallel fashion with "[a] duty [that is] owed (to)". More explicit, though oddly not as helpful IMHO, is this b.g.c. hit, which seems to define "opposable (to)" as " Which can be legally invoked (against)", and ibid, which defines it very explicitly but as . —Ruakh TALK 20:12, 31 December 2008 (UTC)