Liability
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late Middle English: perhaps from Anglo-Norman French, from French lier ‘to bind’, from Latin ligare .
wiktionary
From liable + -ity.
etymonline
liability (n.)
1790, originally a term in law; "condition of being legally liable" (the sense in limited liability); see liable + -ity. General sense is from 1809; meaning "thing for which one is liable" is first attested 1842. Related: Liabilities.
