civil obligation

His civil obligations lasted until the next world war.

Natural obligations may be set off against civil obligations.

The article also prohibits forced labour, with exceptions for criminal punishment, military service and civil obligations.

After all, seeking justice is a matter of civil obligation, to be exercised by those who can; not just a question of civil rights.

In practice, all races come and go, treaty or no, and a lot of nonhumans evade their civil obligations.

Mr. Mao said that the code also covered inheritance rights, rights to intellectual property ownership and civil obligations.

The question must arise, is the deployment of an ABC option a means of determining someone's civil obligations?

The Constitution forbids arrest or detention for violation of purely civil obligations or for debts.

It expects its members to fulfill the laws and the civil obligations of their countries as long as divine laws are not transgressed.

If this is the case, relevant trading obligations (or civil obligations) are usually considered as not being (fully) met or honored, in the pursuit of economic self-interest.

If an obligation is enforceable by action in a court of law, it is a civil obligation, rather than the less common and unenforceable nautral obligation.

A new law that took effect with the new year has ended the state's undemocratic tradition of exempting a long list of privileged professions from this fundamental civil obligation.

On the one hand, 'Rome II' will help to increase legal certainty in the area of civil obligations, which is crucial to the proper functioning of the internal market.

Under these treaties, European merchants enjoyed extraterritorial privileges while within Ottoman domains, including the right to have their resident consuls act as the judge in legal cases involving their national's civil obligations.

Regarding credit for gaming, Macau law states since 2004 that the granting of credit for casino games of fortune generates civil obligations, which are fully enforceable in Macau courts.

A civil obligation, most common in contracts, is a legal obligation enforceable by a right of action, so that, if the obligation is not fulfilled, the creditor may sue the debtor for breach.

Thus, while the criminal law is not generally a means of escaping civil obligations, the criminal courts may be able to offer some assistance to the gullible by returning their property or making compensation orders.

Thus in April 1988 he wrote in the New Statesman, 'Underpinning our social policy are those traditions - the diffusion of power, civil obligation, and voluntary service - which are central to Conservative philosophy.

Mr. Wade was a co-author of successive editions of a widely used case book on tort law, which is the law governing the civil obligations when an individual or corporation injures someone, and the determination of liability and damages.

Few of the several hundred parishioners who packed St. Mary's Catholic Cathedral here to listen to Pastor Donald F. Dunn speak about equating moral and civil obligations could have missed the focus of his sermon on Sunday.

Natural obligations arise when, for example, a minor concludes a contract: If the other party is major or a juristic person, he will be bound by a civil obligation, but the minor will be bound only by a natural obligation.

Furthermore crew members were freed from any civil obligations, which included tax-free trading for personal provisioning before and after a voyage and a deferral of heritage fees for the families of crew members deceased during a voyage.

Making the church a major reform target, the Gomez Farias government moved to control clerical appointments, canceled civil obligations to pay tithes, eliminated the enforcement of monastic vows upon friars and nuns, and began to disentail church estates and other properties.

'Distressing' to the Military Several republics have tried to negotiate with the Kremlin and the Defense Ministry about instituting alternative service that would allow young men to fulfill their civil obligations in nonmilitary ways, or permitting soldiers to serve out their army terms in their native regions.