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the metropolitan . . . grants letters of administration, such administration is not, but voidable by sentence. Ayliffe.

Capable of being vacated; liable to be annulled or made invalid; voidable. The charters were not avoidable for the king's nonage. Hale.

Not avoidable; incapable of being shunned or prevented; inevitable; necessary; as, unavoidable troubles.

Confirmation; ratification; confirmation of a voidable act. This statute . . . in affirmance of the common law. Bacon.

loss happening to the ship, or cargo, or freight, in consequence of some fortuitous or unavoidable accident; and it is borne by the individual owners of the articles damaged, or by their insurers. -- Petty averages are sundry small charges, which occur regularly, and are necessarily defrayed by the master in the usual…

Unavoidable; inevitable.

lity, so far as concerns the party coerced. When the force is moral, then the act, though voidable, is imputable to the party doing it, unless he be so paralyzed by terror as to act convulsively. At the same time coercion is not negatived by the fact of submission under force. "Coactus volui" (I consented under compuls…

A conveyance by which a voidable estate is made sure and not voliable, or by which a particular estate is increased; a contract, express or implied, by which a person makes that firm and binding which was before voidable.

Avoidable. [Obs.]

r tranquility; uneasiness; disturbance; agitation; anxiety. Fears and disquietude, and unavoidable anxieties of mind. Abp. Sharp.

Avoidable.

A voidable. [R.] Hooker.

Happening independently of human will or means of foresight; resulting from unavoidable physical causes. Abbott.

Unavoidable; inevitable. [Obs.] Fuller.

Incapable of being eluded or evaded; unvoidable. Most pressing reasons and ineludible demonstrations. Glanvill.

Not evitable; incapable of being shunned; unavoidable; certain. "The inevitable hour." Gray. It was inevitable; it was necessary; it was planted in the nature of things. Burke.

The state of being unavoidable; certainty to happen. Prideaux.

Physical toil or bodily exertion, especially when fatiguing, irksome, or unavoidable, in distinction from sportive exercise; hard, muscular effort directed to some useful end, as agriculture, manufactures, and like; servile toil; exertion; work. God hath set Labor and rest, as day and night, to men Successive. Milton.…

The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite; inevitableness; indispensableness.

Calmly, without agitation or violent emotion; patiently; as, to submit quietly to unavoidable evils.