Impracticable - Definition - Law Dictionary Home Dictionary Definition impracticable

Definition :

Impracticable means not practicable, incapable of being performed or accomplished by the means employed at command 'Impracticable' presupposes that the action is 'possible' but owing to certain practical difficulties or other reasons it is incapable of being performed, Union of India v. Harjeet Singh Sandhu, (2001) 5 SCC 593.

Is defined as incapable of being effected from lack of adequate means, impossible of performance, not feasible.

Impracticable means impossible or unreasonabley difficult of performance, and is a much stronger term than expedient, Union of India v. Harjeet Singh Sandhu, (2001) 5 SCC 593.

Is defined to mean impossible in practice to do or carry out, New Oxford Dictionary of English, 1998, p. 918.

Means not possible or not feasible, Law Lexicon, P. Ramanatha Aiyar, 2nd Edn., p. 889.

Means not practicable words and phrases, Permanent Edn., Vol. 20, pp. 460-61).

In matters of business a thing is said to be impossible when it is not practicable, and a thing is impractic-able when it can only be done at an excessive or unreasonable cost, Moss v. Smith, 19 LJ CP 225.