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. § 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.

Adjective

(en adjective)

Able to be levied

*{{quote-book, year=1867, author=Anonymous, title=The British North America Act, 1867, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Where Customs Duties are, at the Union, leviable' on any Goods, Wares, or Merchandises in any Two Provinces, those Goods, Wares, and Merchandises may, from and after the Union, be imported from one of those Provinces into the other of them on Proof of Payment of the Customs Duty '''leviable''' thereon in the Province of Exportation, and on Payment of such further Amount (if any) of Customs Duty as is ' leviable thereon in the Province of Importation.}}

*{{quote-book, year=1916, author=Fedor Jagor; Tomas de Comyn; Chas. Wilkes; Rudolf Virchow., title=The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=An additional of two and one-half per cent, a new and temporary duty, called subvencion, appropiated to the payment of the loan made to the king by the Cadiz Board of Trade, and leviable on all kinds of imported goods, and, of course, equal, according to the usual mode of valuation, to about three per cent. }}