One of them, whom I met in Rangoon, told me how he was forced to sign a document prior to leaving jail, which made him liable for future imprisonment if he publicly denounced the government again.
We're not going to try to provide any rhyme or reason here, but if the Hays client had immediately repurchased shares, the wash sale rule would have made him liable for $214,000 in taxes.
This provoked the opposition of Charles James Fox, whose father, Lord Holland, had profited greatly by that office; Kenyon's programme could have ruined Fox by making him liable for refunding his father's profits as Paymaster.
"Under one fair reading of the law, that could make him liable to taxpayers for three times the amount of the salary he now receives in the Senate.
He added that pending legislation that would make him personally liable for up to $500,000 in fines might, for him, "lead to a revolution and destroy the very stations that I helped build".
Rather than set up a limited liability corporation, he incorporated Gilder Publishing in a way that eventually made him personally liable for every penny of the debt and taxes that he incurred.
Instead it told him that a clause in its small print makes him entirely liable for the damage, and as a result it has the right to charge him the full cost of the engine rebuild, plus a host of other associated costs.
That would make them liable for material errors and omissions in their ratings.
One idea is to make them liable for damage caused when, say, hackers exploit a weakness in a software program.
But Holyrood has approved changes that will make them liable for 90% of the charge.
NFL lawyers wanted the judge to push for against M.I.A. and make her liable for the gesture and the complaints.
