legal duty
Mandated professional responsibility
A legal duty is an obligation imposed or recognized by law, requiring a person or entity to act or refrain from acting in a particular way.
Failure to fulfill a legal duty may result in liability or legal consequences.
In tort law, establishing that the defendant owed the plaintiff a legal duty is typically the first step in proving negligence.
The property owner had a legal duty to maintain safe conditions for visitors.
- nonfeasanceFailure to perform duty
- standard of careMinimum acceptable professional conduct
- reasonable personSomeone exercising sound judgment
- foreseeabilityCapacity to be anticipated
- lawBinding principle or regulation
requirement · mandate · good faith · in bad faith · burden · responsibility · culpability · tort · damages · accountability · negligence · binding · sworn · care · defendant · statute · breach · owed
- duty
- obligationmandatory, obligatory, required, compulsory, optional
- criminal lawcrime, felony, misdemeanor, murder, robbery
- legal ethicsattorney-client privilege, professional conduct, privilege, code of ethics, pro bono
- obligationsobligations, contractual obligations, contract, military service, agreement
- legal dutiesstandard of care
legal dutyvoluntary act
Uncoerced intentional deed
personal choice · privilege · gift · kindness · favor
legal dutylegal right
Law-protected claim
entitlement · legal privilege · legal immunity · claim · cause of action
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