LEGAL DUTY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does legal duty mean? 

• LEGAL DUTY (noun)
  The noun LEGAL DUTY has 1 sense:

1. acts which the law requires be done or forborne

  Familiarity information: LEGAL DUTY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEGAL DUTY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Acts which the law requires be done or forborne

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("legal duty" is a kind of...):

duty; obligation; responsibility (the social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "legal duty"):

fiduciary duty (the legal duty of a fiduciary to act in the best interests of the beneficiary)