If any portion of this section is held invalid or unenforceable under any particular circumstance, the balance of the section is intended to apply and the section as a whole is intended to apply in other circumstances.
"Debian GNU/Linux: Guide to Installation and Usage"
John Goerzen and Ossama Othman
The Star Chamber had been the only court which punished infractions of the Kings' edicts, so now his proclamations were unenforceable.
"Our Legal Heritage, 4th Ed."
S. A. Reilly
There is, at least at the common law, some middle ground between those contracts which are merely unenforceable, and those which subject the co-makers to a criminal liability; although under the cast-iron wording of a statute it may be that no such distinction can be made.
"Popular Law-making"
Frederic Jesup Stimson