liable / libel [ˈlaibəl]
liable – adj. – 1. Law bound or obligated by regulation, legally subject to; 2. exposed to or likely to suffer from; 3. attached or belonging to
libel – n. & v. – n. – 1. a short book, treatise or writing; 2. a formal written declaration or statement; 3. civil law – the document containing the plaintiff’s allegations and beginning a lawsuit; 4. a publicly circulated statement or document that defames a person’s character, also the crime of publishing written material against another’s character especially when it is false; v. – 1. spread damaging or false accusations, defame, discredit; 2. sue another