joint and several liability
C1CEFR level
68/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
Liability under which each of several wrongdoers can be sued for the whole of the claimant's loss.
Because the defendants were subject to joint and several liability, the claimant recovered the full sum from the solvent one.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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