imputable

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When a prosecutor offers him a chance to provide extenuating circumstances for his crimes—“Can you affirm that your acts are imputable to external influences of some kind ”—Sylvain is unable to follow the question:

From The New Yorker • May 1, 2017

"What the state of Texas has done in this case is imputable in law to the US and engages the United States' international responsibility," she said.

From BBC • Jul. 8, 2011

The tardiness in this respect, however, cannot be said to be in any way imputable to a want of diligence, zeal or ability in the legation of the United States at Madrid.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873 by Various

Death caused by vehicles accidentally not imputable, 78 299 ...

From Hindu Law and Judicature from the Dharma-Sástra of Yájnavalkya by Edward Röer

If, perchance, the scales of justice be not correctly balanced, let the error be imputable to pity, not to gold.

From Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote by Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de