Editing Legal liability (section)

{{Short description|Legal obligation for any damage, enforceable by either civil law or criminal law}}
{{Redirect|Liable|other uses of "liable"|Liability (disambiguation)|"libel"|Libel (disambiguation)}}

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In [[law]], '''liable''' means  "responsible or answerable in law; legally obligated".<ref>LIABLE, Black's Law Dictionary (10th ed. 2014)</ref> '''Legal liability''' concerns both [[Civil law (common law)|civil law]] and [[criminal law]] and can arise from various areas of law, such as [[contract]]s, [[tort]]s, [[tax]]es, or fines given by [[Administrative law|government agencies]]. The [[Plaintiff|claimant]] is the one who seeks to establish, or prove, liability.