legal duty

legal duty
A duty prescribed by the law, to act or forbear from acting.

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  • legal duty — n. An obligation required by law, such as the duty of parents to care for their children or the duty arising from a contract; also called a legal obligation. The Essential Law Dictionary. Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. Amy… …   Law dictionary

  • legal duty — noun acts which the law requires be done or forborne • Topics: ↑law, ↑jurisprudence • Hypernyms: ↑duty, ↑responsibility, ↑obligation • Hyponyms: ↑fiduciary duty …   Useful english dictionary

  • legal duty — obligation which is imposed by the law …   English contemporary dictionary

  • legal duty — That which the law requires to be done or forborne to a determinable person, or to the public at large, being correlative to a right vested in such determinate person, or the public at large. Bragdon v Perkins Campbell Co. (CA3 Pa) 87 F 109 …   Ballentine's law dictionary

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  • Children's Healthcare is a Legal Duty — is a non profit national membership organization which combats religious exemptions to laws requiring medical care for children and religious exemptions to laws punishing parents who fail to provide that care.[1][2][3] It was founded by Rita and… …   Wikipedia

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  • legal — le·gal / lē gəl/ adj [Latin legalis, from leg lex law] 1: of or relating to law or the processes of law a legal question take legal action 2 a: deriving authority from or founded on law a legal tariff rate a legal government …   Law dictionary

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