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What does liable mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word liable? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. bound or obliged in law or equity; responsible; answerable.
  2. subject; susceptible.
  3. exposed to a certain contingency or causality, more or less probable.
  4. (as predicate, with "to" and an infinitive) likely.
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If he fails to do so, he is held liable, whereas in an action for negligence the legal burden in most cases remains throughout on the plaintiff.
Children who come of age and have not gone through the puberty rite are liable to be forcibly seized to undergo the procedure.
By the 15th cent., the palace was a rabbit warren of rooms and corridors, swarming with servants and lawyers, and liable to flooding.
Does that cover a person adjudged liable to pay a pecuniary penalty in a civil action?
That is important now, because referees are liable to book players for trivial things.
Canadian law recognizes exceptional situations where an officer or director can be held liable.

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