| slovo | definícia |
moral obligation
(encz) | moral obligation, n: |
moral obligation
(wn) | moral obligation
n 1: an obligation arising out of considerations of right and
wrong; "he did it out of a feeling of moral obligation" |
MORAL OBLIGATION
(bouvier) | MORAL OBLIGATION. A duty which one owes, and which he ought to perform, but
which he is not legally bound to fulfill.
2. These obligations are of two kinds 1st. Those founded on a natural
right; as, the obligation to be charitable, which can never be enforced by
law. 2d. Those which are supported by a good or valuable antecedent
consideration; as, where a man owes a debt barred by the act of limitations,
this cannot be recovered by law, though it subsists in morality and
conscience; but if the debtor promise to pay it, the moral obligation is a
sufficient consideration for the promise, and the creditor may maintain an
action of assumpsit, to recover the money. 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 623.
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moral obligation
(encz) | moral obligation, n: |
moral obligation
(wn) | moral obligation
n 1: an obligation arising out of considerations of right and
wrong; "he did it out of a feeling of moral obligation" |
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