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Law

Legal responsibility for a wrong

In law, liability is the condition of being legally responsible for one's acts or omissions, together with the resulting obligation to pay compensation or otherwise answer for the harm. Calabresi and Melamed's 1972 Property Rules, Liability Rules, and Inalienability drew the influential distinction between protecting an entitlement with an injunction and protecting it with a liability rule, under which another party may interfere but must then pay court-set damages. The word also names doctrines such as tort liability, strict liability, and the limited liability of a corporation. The referent is a legal relationship of answerability and its remedy, not a figure recorded on a company's books or a hidden statistical risk of disease.[1]

Unit
One party's legal answerability for a harm, and the remedy owed for it
Recovery means
A liability may be discharged or released by payment, settlement, judgment, or the running of a limitation period
Measured by
Established by courts through findings of duty, breach, and causation, and by the assessment of damages

Quantitative genetics

a latent, continuously varying propensity toward a disorder, which appears when an individual's liability crosses a threshold.

In quantitative genetics and psychiatric epidemiology, liability is a latent, continuously varying propensity toward a disorder that is itself observed only as present or absent: the trait is assumed to sit on an underlying normal distribution, and the disease appears when an individual's liability crosses a threshold. Falconer's 1965 The inheritance of liability to certain diseases introduced this liability-threshold model to estimate the heritability of yes-or-no traits from how often they occur among relatives. The referent is an unobserved statistical distribution of risk across a population, inferred from incidence, not a legal obligation or a figure entered in a ledger.[2]

Unit
An individual's position on a latent normal risk distribution, in standard deviations
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Inferred from the frequency of the disorder in the population and among relatives, and expressed as the heritability of liability

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References

  1. Calabresi, G., & Melamed, A. D. (1972). Property rules, liability rules, and inalienability: One view of the cathedral. Harvard Law Review, 85(6), 1089–1128. https://doi.org/10.2307/1340059
  2. Falconer, D. S. (1965). The inheritance of liability to certain diseases, estimated from the incidence among relatives. Annals of Human Genetics, 29(1), 51–76. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-1809.1965.tb00500.x

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