More important, though, they were entering a new zone, where the usual obligations and allegiances ceased to operate.

When the pope died the next year, Lainez consulted "learned theologians" and won from them the opinion that the obligation ceased with the death of the pope.

The obligation towards the government ceases when the interest ceases.

The obligations of the law of nature cease not in society, but only in many cases are drawn closer, and have by human laws known penalties annexed to them, to inforce their observation.

When you have fulfilled three requests, your obligation to me ceases.

A bondman's obligations ceased with death, and could not be perpetuated down to his descendants.

The second implicit proposition is that the diagnosis of a terminal illness does not mean that the doctor's obligations to his patient cease.

The obligation to bargain ceases once the sale is completed, the Court said in an opinion by Justice White.

Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives.

When these states accede to the Union, however, this obligation will cease to apply.