All four appeals court judges agreed, which lawyers say will make it much tougher for a lender to claim that those obligations do not exist.

The courts have used regulatory rules in determining whether an obligation under the general law exists or has been broken in a number of ways.

If the earl was not his father, the obligation had never existed.

The disabled should not feel that an obligation existed in relation to Motability.

If such rights, obligations or benefits exist, they must be factored into the tests of reasonableness and significance.

"We have asked the Attorney General's office to point this out to us, and they have admitted such an obligation doesn't exist," he said.

A statutory obligation exists for distribution of digital audio recording devices or media.

Moreover, what moral or social obligation was I under to be honest, and where, if such an obligation existed, did it lie?

Amendment No 2 on providing the rules to passengers is not acceptable since this obligation already exists in the current regulation.

A similar obligation exists for some foreign residents wishing to come to the Netherlands, especially people wanting to marry somebody who already lives there.