Responsibility
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
The obligation to answer for an act done and to repair any injury it may have caused. One person — as, for example, a principal, master, or parent — is frequently responsible, civilly, for the acts of another. Penal responsibility is always personal; and no one can be punished for the commission of a crime but the person who has committed it, or his accomplice.