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liable

adjective as in answerable, responsible

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Then, in July, Faber issued a second ruling that found Bluestone liable for the selenium violations.

They don’t want to be liable if someone has an adverse reaction.

From Digiday

It meant that a parent corporation like McDonald’s, one of the companies embroiled in litigation over the rule, could be held liable for a franchise owner’s wrongdoing, such as retaliating against workers for trying to unionize.

If the employee did so, the agency would have terminated a full-time contract with the employee and worked on a contract basis instead leaving the employee liable for paying for their own healthcare and other benefits can .

From Digiday

Yesterday a California appeals court ruled Amazon is liable for products sold by third parties on its site.

From Quartz

Clients who are wary of online transactions are liable to see escorts with print ads as less likely to cheat or scam  them.

And while eBay makes a direct profit from sales, it is generally not liable unless it had knowledge of a suspicious seller.

In fact, the suit tries to somehow find MLB liable for a still picture of Rector posted on a website called NotSportcenter.

When he says that,” Lefty Wilson, the trainer, said, “he's liable to get three goals.

This was the first time an oil refinery had been held criminally liable under the Act.

Births, marriages, and deaths were also made liable to duties by the same Act.

Another way of rendering a principal liable for the act of his agent is by ratifying it.

His principal surely would not be liable, though the conductor doubtless would be.

A principal is liable for the statements and representations of his agent that have been expressly authorized.

Distilled water may be used for dilution, but is more liable to cause error.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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