sueability

Those in the field may be negotiating treaties for friendship, commerce, and navigation, or bilateral investment treaties, or UNC- TAD code of conduct; or they may be litigating the sueability of a foreign flag vessel which is owned by a state entity but is carrying commercial cargo; or they may be dealing with alleged extraterritorial application of United States antitrust legislation, either by attempting to collect or to prevent the collection of treble damages from a subsidiary of a foreign-based corporation; ...

1984, John F. Williams, Paul Clifford, Career Preparation and Opportunities in International Law, →ISBN, page ix

For, according to that Constitution, a State is sueable; and a State, being, in its own nature, sovereign and independent, and if by any contract, stipulation or assent of the people it should be reduced to a liableness of sueability, it would become a Corporation, being accountable, and would cease to be a State.

1994, The Documentary History of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1789-1800