The extent of liability is often regulated by contract.
The question that is likely to dominate much of the litigation, wherever it lands, is the extent of liability for BP and the companies it worked with.
"It suits the MoD to minimise the numbers in order to reduce the extent of liability," says Tony Gauvain, a retired colonel, psychotherapist and chairman of the charity PTSD Resolution.
In all these instances the use of the notion of cause is central to the legal inquiry, since to establish responsibility it must be shown that the harm was done or brought about by the agency that the law treats as a potential basis for the existence or extent of liability.
Finally, it recognizes that any plausible framework must impose necessary boundaries on the extent of liability, including delineating the nature of the rights to be protected and the scope of a PMSC's potential obligations in relation to those rights.
Get everything on record, from the first formal quotation, the details of the machines, the accompanying accessories, delivery terms, mode of payment, extent of buyer liability, seller liability, etc.
Greece could then pretend that its debt was not debt at all and mask the full extent of its liabilities.
Although MF Global reported only the alternative calculation to regulators, it prepared its own segregation report every day that showed the true extent of its liabilities.
Insurance and reinsurance companies also suffered, as investors worried about the extent of their liabilities in covering the damage wreaked by the earthquake and tsunami.
The ONS said the recapitalisations of Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Banking Group meant they had in effect become public corporations, which would have to add the full extent of their liabilities to the national debt.
