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Liable vs Convicted - What's the difference?

liable | convicted |

As an adjective liable

is bound or obliged in law or equity; responsible; answerable.

As a verb convicted is

(convict).

liable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Bound or obliged in law or equity; responsible; answerable.
  • The surety is liable for the debt of his principal.
  • * 1748 . David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. ยง 34.
  • The passion for philosophy, like that for religion, seems liable to this inconvenience
  • Exposed to a certain contingency or casualty, more or less probable.
  • Likely.
  • Someone is liable to slip on your icy sidewalk.

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    convicted

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (convict)

  • convict

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To find guilty
  • # as a result of legal proceedings, about of a crime
  • # informally, notably in a moral sense; said about both perpetrator and act.
  • Synonyms

    * (legal crime) sentence * (informal) disapprove

    Noun

    (wikipedia convict) (en noun)
  • (legal) A person convicted of a crime by a judicial body.
  • A person deported to a penal colony.
  • A common name for the sheepshead (Archosargus probatocephalus), owing to its black and stripes.
  • Synonyms

    * (person convicted of crime) assigned servant, con, government man, public servant * (person deported to a penal colony) penal colonist

    Derived terms

    * con (synonym)