Legal liability
Legal obligation for any damage, enforceable by either civil law or criminal law / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Liable" redirects here. For other uses of "liable", see Liability (disambiguation). For "libel", see Libel (disambiguation).
In law, liable means "responsible or answerable in law; legally obligated".[1] 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.
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