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What (who) is liable - definition
LEGAL OBLIGATION FOR ANY DAMAGE, ENFORCEABLE BY EITHER CIVIL LAW OR CRIMINAL LAW
Liable; Manufacturer's Liability; Civil liability; Criminal liability; Personal liability; Legal liabilities; Liability lawsuit; Liability (law)
Liable
·vt Bound or obliged in law or equity; responsible; answerable; as, the surety is liable for the debt of his principal.
II. Liable ·vt Exposed to a certain contingency or casualty, more or less probable;
- with to and an infinitive or noun; as, liable to slip; liable to accident.
liable
1.
When something is liable to happen, it is very likely to happen.
Only a small minority of the mentally ill are liable to harm themselves or others.
PHRASE
2.
If people or things are liable to something unpleasant, they are likely to experience it or do it.
She will grow into a woman particularly liable to depression...
Steroids are used to reduce the inflammation, which makes the muscles of the airways liable to constriction.
= prone
ADJ: v-link ADJ to n
3.
If you are liable for something such as a debt, you are legally responsible for it.
The airline's insurer is liable for damages to the victims' families...
As the killings took place outside British jurisdiction, the Ministry of Defence could not be held liable.
ADJ: v-link ADJ, usu ADJ for n
• liability
He is claiming damages from London Underground, which has admitted liability but disputes the amount of his claim.
N-UNCOUNT
liable
adj.
legally obligated
1) liable for; to (she is liable to them for her children's debts)
likely
2) (cannot stand alone) liable to + inf. (she is liable to show up at any time)
Wikipedia
Legal liability
In law, liable means "responsible or answerable in law; legally obligated". Legal liability concerns both civil law and criminal law and can arise from various areas of law, such as contracts, torts, taxes, or fines given by government agencies. The claimant is the one who seeks to establish, or prove, liability.
Examples of use of liable
1. Individual directors would not be personally liable.
2. "They examined all the responses he is liable to give during his testimony, and have already explored every possible direction in which Olmert is liable to lead them.
3. The jury also awarded actual damages of $6 million, for which Rossum was found 75 percent liable and the county 25 percent liable.
4. In addition I may say that a main principle in zakah is that it is liable on property that is, by its nature, liable to growth.
5. He was later found liable in a wrongful–death trial.