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Liable at Legal Glossary What is it? Legally responsible. For example, a person may be liable for a debt, liable for an accident due to careless behavior, ...

 


Liable - Legally responsible.
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Liable: Legally responsible.
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Liable
(adj) A person or entity is said to liable to compensate the void when he makes or cause to make a loss or damage to the other party by an action he is not expected to do or no action of his responsibilities or contractual obligations.

Liable: Legally responsible.
Libel: Published words or pictures that falsely and maliciously defame a person. Libel is published defamation; slander is spoken.

Liable - Legally responsible.
Libel - Published defamation which tends to injure a person's reputation.
Licensing boards - State agencies created to regulate the issuance of licenses, i.e., to contractors, cosmetologists, realtors, etc.

Liable: When someone can be legally made to do something, for example, to pay a fine or damages, he or she is said to be liable.

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Liable
Definition - adj
[ultimately from Old French lier to bind, from Latin ligare]
1 : answerable according to law
: bound or obligated according to law or equity <one is ~ as an accomplice to the crime of another ­W. R. LaFave and A.

Liable/liability
Generally used in civil trials e.g. personal injury.
It means responsible for the alleged 'injury' e.g.

jointly liable, or
severally liable, or
jointly and severally liable.
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A debtor liable to contribution is not responsible upon a contract, but is so in equity.

"... are liable to dissolution on demand of one of the parties on a vital change of circumstances, on the principle conventio omnis intelligitur rebus sic stantibus.

Hoymen are liable as common carriers. Story, Bailm. §496.
HUE AND CRY, Eng. law.

Where a party is liable for the torts (wrongful act or omission) or crimes of another party. Mostly commonly occurs where an employer is liable for the actions of an employee.
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"No one shall be liable to be tried or punished again in criminal proceedings under the jurisdiction of the same State for an offence for which he has already been finally acquitted or convicted in accordance with the law and penal procedure of that ...

When one person is liable for the negligent actions of another person, even though the first person was not directly responsible for the injury.

To be liable for the injury of another, one must have acted in such a way as to proximately cause the injury.

Partners are each fully liable for all the debts of the enterprise but they also share the profits exclusively.

For example, owners of vicious dogs may be liable for injuries caused by these dogs if they can prove the owner's "scienter" (i.e. that the owner was aware, before the attack, of the dog's vicious character). Search warrant A court order (i.e.

To say a person is "liable" for a debt or wrongful act is to indicate that they are the person responsible for paying the debt or compensating the wrongful act. TOP Libel : Defamation by writing such as in a newspaper or a letter.

2 The scarcity of labour by the reduction of the population through pestilence was not admitted as a justification for the demands for increased pay, and while the unemployed labourer was liable to be committed to gaol if he refused service at ...

Third Party Claim An action brought by the defendant in an existing action against another person, asserting that this third party is liable for some or all of the plaintiff's damages rather than the defendant.

Persons suspected of crime may be rendered liable to trial by indictment, by presentment, or by information.

Endorsement - The act of writing one's name on back of a note, bill, check or similar written instrument making the endorser a party to the instrument and liable, under certain conditions, for its payment.

In many cases the joint tortfeasors are jointly and severally liable for the damages, meaning that any of them can be responsible to pay the entire amount, no matter how unequal the negligence of each party was.

A statement one is not required to make for which he is not liable in damages for injury traceable thereto. Medbury v. Watson, 6 Metc. 259 (1843); Gordon v. Parmelee, 2 Allen 214 (1861).Obiter dicta.

This is a business owned by two or more people (called partners or general partners) who are personally liable for all business debts.

Permits a group of defendants to be held both individually and collectively liable for all damages suffered by the plaintiff. The plaintiff can recover the entire amount of damages from one defendant, even if all of the defendants are liable.

The doctrine of unseaworthiness makes a shipowner liable if a seaman is injured because the ship, or any appliance of the ship, is "unseaworthy," meaning defective in some way.

The reason that hearsay is often kept out of a trial is that it is considered unreliable. Instead of having someone testify about what they heard someone else say, it is much more reliable to have the person who actually made the statement testify.

Where there are several co-obligants bound "in solidum", each is liable in full payment or performance, and the creditor may choose which of the obligants he will sue.

If the buyer breaches the contract by refusing to purchase the Rolex, he would be liable to the seller for actual (also known as compensatory) damages. Actual damages are the real losses sustained by the seller.

Vicarious liability: when one person is liable for the negligent actions of another person, even though the first person was not directly responsible for the injury.

This is the question of whether the employer is found responsible for (liable for) the discrimination, unfair dismissal or other claim, i.e. whether or not the worker has won his case.

Evidence of visual identification is notoriously unreliable, yet favoured by juries.

Strict Liability: The defendant is liable to the plaintiff regardless of fault.
Stub Track: A form of side track connected to a running track at one only and protected at the other end by a bumping post or other obstruction.

surety: One who is legally liable for the debt, default, or failure to carry out a duty of another.
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third-party action: A claim asserted by a defendant, styled a third-party plaintiff, against a person, styled a third-party defendant.

Proximate Cause: The last negligent act which contributes to an injury. A person generally is liable only if an injury was proximately caused by his or her action or by his or her failure to act when he or she had a duty to act.

Limited Partner:
A member of a partnership who has agreed to be liable only to the extent of his (or her) investment.
Limitrophe:
Adjacent, bordering or contiguous.

impleader: Rule 14; a procedural device whereby a party, usually the defendant, may bring into a lawsuit another person, asserting that such person is or may be liable to him for all or part of the plaintiff's claim.

inadmissible/incompetent evidenceInformation which is so unreliable it cannot be admitted under the established rules of evidence.
in cameraIn a judge's chambers; in private.

Joint and several liability - A legal doctrine that makes each of the parties who are responsible for an injury, liable for all the damages awarded in a lawsuit if the other parties responsible cannot pay.

forfeit To lose, or lose the right to; to incur a penalty, or to become liable for the payment of money as the consequence of a certain act; a criminal defendant who fails to appear in court forfeits bail.

Liability imposed on one person for the actions of another, as in the case of an employer who is vicariously liable for the acts of an employee performed in the course and scope of the employee's duties. See also Master and Servant.

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It is proposed to consider, 1. The interest which they have in the estate of the deceased. 2. How far they are liable for... more ...

If employee, the broker must withhold income tax and pay social security, provide workmen's compensation, and may be liable for some negligent acts of the salesperson while on the job.

This complaint alleges that the third party is or may be liable for all or part of the damages which the plaintiff may win from the defendant.

Some jurisdictions (including California) have abolished the attractive nuisance doctrine and replaced it with specific conditions (e.g. open pit and refrigerators) and would make property owners liable only by applying rules of foreseeable danger ...

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