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imputed liability

imputed liability is the alternative form of vicarious liability.

Meaning of vicarious liability

Noun

vicarious liability (uncountable)

  1. The legal liability imputed to the superior for the acts of their subordinate, even though the superior is not personally at fault.

Questions about imputed liability

What is imputed liability the alternative form of?
Imputed liability is the alternative form of vicarious liability.

Words near imputed liability in the dictionary

  1. imputative
  2. imputatively
  3. imputativeness
  4. impute
  5. imputed
  6. imputed liability
  7. imputedly
  8. imputer
  9. imputers
  10. imputes
  11. imputest

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Adapted from Wiktionary: imputed liability (page history and authors); vicarious liability (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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