Chiefly of persons (in later use also organizations, etc.): liable to be called to account or to… In predicative use. With prepositional complement…

Giving or liable to give an account (esp. of conduct or the performance of duties); accountable, responsible. Esp. in earlier use, to stand accountant…

Liable to be called to account; under a legal or moral obligation; accountable, responsible. Accountable for an act, a result, a debt, a person…

Answerable, responsible. Chiefly Scottish. Obsolete.

Liable to give an account or reckoning; answerable, responsible; = accountable, adj. 1. Obsolete.

Law. Bound or obliged by law or equity, or in accordance with a rule or convention; answerable (for, also const. †to with the same sense); legally…

Liable to be called to account, answerable, responsible. Obsolete or archaic.

= responsible, adj. (in various senses).

Answerable, responsible. Obsolete.

Giving or liable to give account; = accountant, adj.

Cf. to hold (a person or thing) responsible at hold, v. additions. Answerable or liable to be called to account to another person for something…

Responsible, answerable. Obsolete.

More generally: liable or open to a charge, claim, etc.