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The Legal Duty
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The Legal Duty book
The Legal Duty
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The Legal Duty book
Edited ByHans Kelsen, A. Javier Treviño
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2005
Imprint Routledge
Pages 7
eBook ISBN 9780203790960
ABSTRACT
Intimately related to the concept of delict is the concept of legal duty. The concept of duty is originally a specific concept of morals and denotes the moral norm in its relation to the individual to whom certain conduct is prescribed or forbidden by the norm. The statement: “An individual has the (moral) duty, or is (morally) obligated, to observe such-and-such behavior” means that there is a valid (moral) norm enjoining this behavior, or that the individual ought to behave in that way.