The phrase "a subsisting" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to something that is currently existing or in effect, often in legal or formal contexts.
Example: "The contract remains valid as long as there is a subsisting agreement between the parties involved."
Alternatives: "an existing" or "a current".
13. 3. The ordinances impose a tax upon a subsisting contract, and alter its terms by withholding part of the stipulated interest due thereon.
Subsection (b) also covers the special situation of a subsisting first-term copyright that becomes eligible for renewal registration during the year before the act comes into effect.
If the Congress could not extend a subsisting copyright for want of originality, it is hard to see how it could provide for a copyright to be renewed at the expiration of its initial term -- a practice dating back to 1790 and not questioned even by the plaintiffs today.
Their objection that extending the term of a subsisting copyright violates the requirement of originality misses the mark because originality is by its nature a threshold inquiry relevant to copyrightability, not a continuing concern relevant to the authority of the Congress to extend the term of a copyright.
There is no greater objection, in point of law, to a similar inquiry for the like purpose into the fact of a subsisting and continuing bigamous or polygamous relation, when it is made, as by the statute under consideration, a disqualification to vote.
As for the dissent's objection that extending a subsisting copyright does nothing to "promote Progress," we think that implies a rather crabbed view of progress: Preserving access to works that would otherwise disappear -- not enter the public domain but disappear -- "promotes Progress" as surely as does stimulating the creation of new works.
He is a remnant of a man, subsisting on laconic sentences and grunts.
Unless Mr. Singer lives in a shack, subsisting on gruel, water, a typewriter and one kidney, I'm sure he agrees.
The scheme allowed Tesco to profile its shoppers, finding out whether they were a family with kids or a singleton subsisting on beer and ready meals.
One of my friends, Robin, is a crazy anarchist who lives in a basement, subsists on a strict booze diet, and fixes cars for a living.
Mrs. C - for Conklin - is a widow subsisting on Social Security benefits.
