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Definition of Liable
Liable

Bound or obliged in law or equity; responsible; answerable; as, the surety is liable for the debt of his principal.

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.

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Liable Quotations

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.
John Lennon

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
Mohandas Gandhi

A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
Mohandas Gandhi

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
Voltaire

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Liable Translations

liable in German is verantwortlich, verpflichtet, verantwortlich
liable in Italian is responsabile, responsabile, obbligato
liable in Spanish is obligado
liable in Swedish is ansvarig


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