Sentence examples for would only be liable from inspiring English sources

This would mean that the smaller party would only be liable for their own legal costs, while the larger party would have to pay for both sides if they lost the case.

Although the court concluded that software firms would only be liable if their purpose was "to cause and profit from third-party acts of copyright infringement", developers of any future P2P technologies will still have to consider possible illegal applications before unveiling new products.

One way or the other, pirates would only be liable for $5000 under Canadian law.

Some cases are in form similar to murder cases; whilst, in others, had death not been caused, the defendant would only be liable for an insignificant crime.

"Why should a corrupt union official who has ripped off hundreds of thousands of dollars from a union only be liable for a fine of $10,800 when, for the same corrupt conduct, a company director would be liable for five years' imprisonment or a fine of $360,000?" The bill was knocked back by the Senate for the first time in March.

One of the significant advances of civilization and economic progress was the idea of limited liability, which took hold in the 19th century: Investors would be liable only for the money they actually put into a corporation; their other assets would be safe.

Borrowers would be liable only for the collateral value of their loan (eg, a house bought with a mortgage) rather than the whole amount.

A defendant would be liable only for his proportion of the responsibility.

But service providers would not be liable for failure to do so.

It is only this profit that would be liable for UK corporation tax.

It asked the Federal District Court in Manhattan to determine that it and the other insurers would be liable for only $3.5 billion because both crashes amounted to a single insurable incident.