English-French translations for liable

• responsable
  Si ce n'est pas le cas, alors il est responsable. If this is not the case, then he is liable.
  Je m'oppose au fait d'en rendre responsables les propriétaires de voitures. I am opposed to making the car owners liable.
  Les pays ne sont pas responsables de la dette des uns et des autres. Countries are not liable for each other's debts.

Definition of liable

• bound or obliged in law or equity; responsible; answerable
• subject; susceptible
• exposed to a certain contingency or causality, more or less probable

Examples

• The surety is liable for the debt of his principal.
• This crime is liable to imprisonment for life
• A man liable to heart disease
• Someone is liable to slip on your icy sidewalk.

Related words

• reliable
• unreliable
• pliable
• reliableness
• conciliable
• affiliable
• irreconciliable
• liable to flare up
• liable to a charge