Definition of Liable

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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

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

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

An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.
Will Rogers

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

There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.
James Madison

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
James Madison

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
John Locke

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

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
Abigail Adams

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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