💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Secondary liability"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| liability insurancenoun | Any insurance against a potential loss due to the insured's liability for injury or damage to others. |
| enterprise liabilitynoun | (law) A legal doctrine and form of secondary liability under which individual entities can be held jointly liable for some action on the basis of being part of a shared enterprise. |
| vicarious liabilitynoun | (law) The legal liability imputed to the superior for the acts of their subordinate, even though the superior is not personally at fault. |
| attributionnoun | The act of attributing something. |
| imputed liabilitynoun | Alternative form of vicarious liability. [(law) The legal liability imputed to the superior for the acts of their subordinate, even though the superior is not personally at fault.] |
| contributory negligencenoun | (law) The rule of law under which an act or omission of plaintiff is a contributing cause of injury and a possible bar to a complete recovery. |
| strict liabilitynoun | (law) A standard of legal liability by which a person can be found liable regardless of intent, fault or negligence. |
| alternative liabilitynoun | (law) A legal doctrine that allows a plaintiff to shift the burden of proving causation of their injury to multiple defendants, even though only one of them could have been responsible. |
| liabilitynoun | An obligation, debt or responsibility owed to someone. |
| liab.noun | (law) Abbreviation of liability. [An obligation, debt or responsibility owed to someone.] |
| indemnitynoun | Security from damage, loss, or penalty. |
| command responsibilitynoun | (law) The principle by which someone can be legally culpable for crimes committed by those under their control. |
| limited liabilitynoun | (finance) The liability of an owner or a partner of a company for no more capital than they have invested. |
| third-party claimnoun | (law) A derivative lawsuit brought by a defendant in an original lawsuit, claiming that another new party being brought in is responsible for or should share in the plaintiff's damages against the defendant. |
| responsibilitynoun | A duty, obligation or liability for which someone is held accountable. |
| maintenancenoun | Actions performed to keep some machine or system functioning or in service. |
| cause of actionnoun | (law) A condition under which one party would be entitled to sue another. |
| suretyshipnoun | (law) An accessory agreement through which one binds oneself for another already bound, either in whole or in part, as for one's debt, default or miscarriage; the assumption of liability for the obligations of another. |
| current liabilitynoun | (accounting) A liability or financial obligation which will come due in the near-term (often within one year). |
| novus actus interveniensnoun | (law) A doctrine of law that, in certain circumstances, an intervening event can break the chain of causation between a person's action and its result, potentially depriving that person of legal liability for the result; such an intervening event. |
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