Indeed, the area covered by statutory duty has expanded hugely in the last couple of centuries.
Or so the system's trustees, who have a statutory duty to plan for the next 75 years, tell the politicians.
Local authorities have a statutory duty to provide appropriate transport services.
We are disappointed about that, but we would fail in our statutory duty if we granted a seven-year licence based on either bid in its present form.
Mike Barrett, chief executive of Kent-based homelessness charity Porchlight, said the council had to try to discharge its statutory duty to the homeless through the private rented sector.
It said people should be ready to protect their own properties and added that neither the council nor the Environment Agency had a statutory duty to provide sandbags.
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Its director of research, Peter Grigg, told BBC Radio 5 live he found it "concerning that, after six or seven years of having the statutory duty, we're still in this position".
Mr Pickles used the announcement to give a veiled warning to councils - which have a statutory duty to provide an efficient bin service - that do not have weekly collections.
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She said that while the government wanted higher-quality childcare it was also proposing to remove the statutory duty on local authorities to ensure that those providing it got the training and support to improve.
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It warned, depending on what inspectors found, the local authority could be investigated over its statutory duty to provide fair access to good quality education, under new rules due to come into force in May.
This audit represents a complete abdication of your statutory duty to ensure that a report approved by the Legislature be complete and thorough, and actually comply with the will of the Legislature which authorized it.
Some ill-thought-out wording in the initiative then allowed Mr Lockyer, who has a statutory duty to give a pithy description of each initiative, to argue that it would deny death and disability benefits to the families of the state's firemen and police.
The second question is whether the closure of the News of the World will be seen by the media regulator, Ofcom, as making News Corporation, parent company of News International, a more or less fit-and-proper owner of British Sky Broadcasting, the UK's biggest television business (it is Ofcom's statutory duty to adjudicate on that important issue).
Congress expressly denied IRS statutory authority to assess additional tax from taxpayers after 3 years from the date the taxpayer complied with his statutory legal duty to sign and file his non-fraudulent tax return with IRS, under penalty of perjury, with payment of the tax calculated by the taxpayer against his worldwide gross taxable income (WGTI).
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The comprehensive report has recommended the racing industry remain self-regulated "within a statutory framework", and regarding duty of care to the dogs under the recent Animal Welfare Act.
Five former clients of CAIR filed the two lawsuits in federal court alleging common law and statutory fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, and intentional infliction of emotional distress against CAIR.
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PricewaterhouseCoopers is, and still is, the financial, statutory auditor - with the duty to give an opinion on financial statement verity - of some of the biggest players in the financial crisis.
C. filed its reply brief in support of its motion for summary judgment in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia on behalf of five former clients of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), who had earlier filed two separate lawsuits in federal court against CAIR, alleging common law and statutory fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
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