Under English common law one had a legal duty to retreat, not stand your ground.
As a disestablished church with a legal duty to marry the Church in Wales is uniquely placed.
The Health Department said private clinics had a moral and a legal duty to help its patients.
Continental European countries like Germany impose a legal duty on citizens to register their residence with the local authority.
The council said it had a legal duty to provide permanent traveller sites.
The Sudanese government has a legal duty to hand over the two men, but repeated its refusal to do so.
South Norfolk Council said it had a legal duty to find interim councillors until elections could be held to find replacements.
They have a proscribed legal duty or responsibility to protect their beneficiaries.
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When Railtrack ran out of money, he had a legal duty to consider giving it more in order to keep the railway running.
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Perhaps surprisingly, insurance agents and brokers never have had much of a legal duty to get the best possible deal for their clients.
The UK Border Agency defended its record on immigrant detentions and said it was soon to "adopt a legal duty to promote children's welfare".
Plus, the legal duty to report sexual abuse remains unclear in many instances, including what sorts of conduct should trigger a call to authorities.
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Betsi Cadwaladr Health Board, which is responsible for the NHS in north Wales, says it may not meet its legal duty to balance its books.
Soldiers are under no legal duty to give their opponents a chance to surrender, though if the white flag is shown it must usually be honoured.
Conservative peer Lord Faulks agreed there were advantages to a boost in candour but raised questions as to what impact the proposed legal duty would have.
Analysts may have a legal duty of care for their retail customers, which means, for example, offering them only such advice as they would give to themselves.
The question whether the Shariah-terror link is sufficient to create a legal duty has not been formally decided but no marginally prudent legal adviser can responsibly ignore it.
And Conservative Cheryl Gillan's Private Members' Bill became the Autism Act 2009, which puts a legal duty on councils and NHS services to look after people with autism.
Connecticut wants to expand the legal duty to securely store a firearm to cover situations where a resident of the premises poses a risk of personal injury to themselves or others.
He says the new law would enshrine for the first time a legal duty on the government to protect the freedom of the press, and provide an independent process to recognise the new self-regulatory body.
The Electoral Commission, which has a legal duty to scrutinise any potential referendum question, said the original wording put forward by the Wales Office contained ambiguous and confusing definitions of what was being voted on.
Mrs May quoted one judge, who had declined to deport a foreign criminal, as having said that "Parliament has not altered the legal duty of the judge determining appeals to decide on proportionality for him or herself".
Guidelines developed for professional pension fiduciaries, subject to a legal duty to safeguard participant benefits, can be especially enlightening as to, for example, the importance of following a defined, disciplined process and evaluating performance against established benchmarks.
"We determined that his decision to do his minimum legal duty and not to do more to follow up constituted a failure of leadership by Coach Paterno, " the board of trustees said in a report that explained his firing.
Police are advised to work with local authorities, who have a legal duty to help the homeless find accommodation, before raiding a squat "to ensure they are ready to assist if required and give appropriate advice on housing options".
Under the mitigation of damages doctrine, a party that suffers damages as a result of a breach of contract has a legal duty to mitigate those damages by taking reasonable action, wherever practicable, to avoid additional injury and minimize its loss.
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