Word Finder - obligation

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The act of binding oneself by a social, legal, or moral tie to someone.

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A social, legal, or moral requirement, duty, contract, or promise that compels someone to follow or avoid a particular course of action.

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A course of action imposed by society, law, or conscience by which someone is bound or restricted.

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A legal agreement stipulating a specified action or forbearance by a party to the agreement; the document containing such agreement.

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Now, you have an obligation to the monster you created.

There's no obligation in knowing what it is.

In fact, he was under no obligation to help her get back, either.

The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.

Obviously being here was an obligation for both of them.

It creates an obligation for me that I must honor.

Paul was watching his son—a parental obligation thing—he didn't really like sports.

I have this gift I never asked for but it's like I have an obligation to utilize it.

He said the obligation was one way.

This of course impaired the obligation of a contract, but under the Eleventh Amendment to the Constitution of the United States the bondholders could not bring suit against the state in the Federal courts.

Their greatest social obligation had been the local church fund raiser.

None of them seem to feel the slightest obligation to be responsive.

Since concordats are contracts they give rise to that special mutual obligation which results from every agreement freely entered into; for a contract is binding on both parties to it.

He was accepting his obligation to her while shutting off everything but the physical side of him.

He met Ethel at a cocktail party both were attending by obligation and neither were enjoying.

It creates a sort of obligation, he said mockingly.

On the nature and obligation of concordats see Mgr.

It's my duty and obligation.

But I will consider your obligation to me complete, on one condition.

She wasn't going to be some sort of obligation to someone who stuck around because he had to.

He will protect her, as is his obligation.

We are under obligation to obey the law revealed in the judgments of this faculty, for it is the law of our nature.

The Cossacks were supposed to be left alone as much as possible by the Polish government so long as they faithfully fulfilled their chief obligation of guarding the frontiers of the Republic from Tatar raids.

Moreover, it is in sympathy that he finds the obligation and sanction of morality.

Philpot in a long reply, whilst maintaining the obligation of infant baptism, yet addresses his correspondent as, "dear brother, saint, and fellow-prisoner for the truth of Christ's gospel"; and at the close of his argument he says, "I beseech thee, dear brother in the gospel, follow the steps of the faith of the glorious martyrs in the primitive church, and of such as at this day follow the same."

Creditor and debtor have also lost their Roman law signification; they have been narrowed to mean the parties where the obligation is the payment of a sum of money.

A perfect obligation is one which is directly enforceable by legal proceedings; an imperfect or moral obligation (the naturalis obligatio of Roman law) is one in which the vinculum juris is in some respects incomplete, so that it cannot be directly enforced, though it is not entirely destitute of legal effect.

The obligation, however, remains, though imperfect, for if there be a subsequent acknowledgment by the debtor, the debt revives, and the imperfect obligation becomes again perfect.

The term obligation is important in America from its use in art.

The problems to be solved were the frontier difficulty with Argentina, the question of the possession of Tacna and Arica with Peru, and the necessity of fulfilling the obligation contracted with Bolivia to give that country a seaport on the Pacific coast.

Human law comes into existence when men recognize this obligation; justice is therefore natural and not something merely conventional.

A neutral government is bound - (i) to use due diligence to prevent the fitting out, arming or equipping within its jurisdiction of any vessel, which it has reasonable ground to believe is intended to cruise or to carry on war against a power with which it is at peace, and also to use like diligence to prevent the departure from its jurisdiction of any vessel intended to cruise or carry on war as above, such vessel having been specially adapted, in whole or in part, within such jurisdiction, to warlike use; (2) not to permit or suffer either belligerent to make use of its ports or waters as the base of naval operations against the other, or for the purpose of the renewal or augmentation of military supplies or arms or the recruitment of men; (3) to exercise due diligence in its own ports and waters, and as to all persons within its jurisdiction to prevent any violation of the foregoing obligation and duties.

The councils of all administrative counties and county boroughs and the councils of a few specified quarter sessions boroughs, which before 1890 were independent areas for purposes of the Lunacy Acts, are local authorities for the purposes of the Lunacy Acts, and each of them is under an obligation to provide asylum accommodation for pauper lunatics.

Questions as to the obligation of Mosaism and the relations of Jew and Gentile have utterly disappeared below the horizon.

A theory of obligation is ultimately found to be inseparable from a metaphysic of personality.

A small debt 2 (at the close of 1906, $4,398,839) is carried in the form of non-negotiable state certificates of indebtedness issued in exchange for money taken from the educational funds of the state, and is intended as a permanent obligation to those funds.

Every fostered person was under an obligation to provide, if necessary, for the old age of foster-parents.

They became of thegnright worthy by receiving, really or nominally, a place in the royal hail, with the obligation to take the field whenever their master raised his banner.

But at any rate he always endeavoured to discharge an obligation, even if he sometimes interpreted it by the strict letter of the law and not with liberality.

The constitution prohibits special, local and retroactive legislation, legislation impairing the obligation of contracts, and legislation levying a poll tax for county or state purposes or a tax on state, municipal and public school bonds (amendment of 1905), and it limits the amount and specifies the character of public debts which the legislature may contract.

If it act not upon the terms but upon the remedy, it impairs the obligation if it purport to be retrospective, but it is valid so far as it applies to subsequent contracts.

Employers were allowed to avoid the obligation to inform or consult if fewer than 20 people were made redundant at any one establishment.

Not only can you save money on your energy bills, but some generators are also eligible to claim a Renewables Obligation Certificate.

Latterly certain Catholics have questioned this equality of the concordatory obligation, and have aroused keen discussion.

The state is practically free from debt, the only obligation of this character being $ 1 35,5 00 in 6% bonds, payable in 1910, which were issued in behalf of the Agricultural College.

The subsequent coronation was marked by portentous novelties, the most significant of which was the king's omission to take the usual coronation oath, which omission was interpreted to mean that he considered himself under no obligation to his subjects.

The government then had to readjust expenditures to largely diminished resources; but the obligation has been met intelligently and courageously, and since 1895 there has been an improvement in the financial state of the country.

It is doubtless a sense of filial obligation coupled with sentiments of piety and reverence that gave rise to this practice of offering gifts of food and drink to the deceased ancestors.

Paul was watching his son—a parental obligation thing—he didn't really like sports.

Her letters to him, far from giving her any comfort, seemed to her a wearisome and artificial obligation.