What is legal liability?
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Liable literally just means responsible. It is from Middle French *lier* meaning *to bind*. Someone who is liable is bound by something – duty, authority, inclination.
*Legally* liable tells you what authority is enacting the binding. The law – and therefore the lawmakers, the government, etc.
It means that the liability is being imposed not by an internal moral compass, but by a specific external force holding someone to account.
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