All 3 Uses

liable
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Angela's Ashes
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If you go late in the morning they're liable to be cranky after seeing hundreds of men women and children sick and asking for help.
Chpt 9 *

liable = likely (to); or maybe going (to)
if anyone bothers you tell them 'tis government orders and they're not to interfere in government business and if they lay a finger on you they're liable to arrest, imprisonment and a large fine
Chpt 17 *

liable = legally responsible
They're very grand now the way they pay sixpence or even a shilling for seats at the Savoy Cinema where you'll meet a better class of people than the lower classes who fill the tuppenny seats in the gods at the Lyric Cinema and are never done shouting at the screen, the kind of people if you don't mind who are liable to cheer on the Africans when they throw spears at Tarzan or the Indians when they're scalping the United States Cavalry.†
Chpt 9

Definitions:

(1) (liable as in: is legally liable)
legally responsible
(2) (liable as in: she is liable to)
likely to; or maybe going to; or subject to
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)