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civil liability
noun [C] (plural civil liabilities) LAWDefinition
› the legal responsibility of paying money for damage to another person's health, business, or property: Company directors face criminal and civil liability for knowingly filing false accounts in the annual report.
(Definition of civil liability noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
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