Category:Viable

Vi"a*ble, a. Etym: [f., from vie life, l. vita. See vital.] (law)

Defn: capable of living; born alive and with such form and Development of organs as to be capable of living; -- said of a Newborn, or a prematurely born, infant.

Note: unless he [an infant] is born viable, he acquires no rights, And can not transmit them to his heirs, and is considered as if he Had never been born. Bouvier.