Responsibility, in the context of the law, may refer to:
Legal obligation
A measure of mental capacity, used in deciding the extent to which a person can be held accountable for a crime; see diminished responsibility.
Specific duties imposed upon persons to care or provide for others, such as the parents' duty to the child or the guardianship of a ward.
A person's role in causing an event to happen. A chain of causation means an individual is responsible for an event. This is part of the law of legal liability and public liability.
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Responsibility, in the context of the law, may refer to: Legal obligation A measure of mental capacity, used in deciding the extent to which a person can...
coexist. Moral responsibility does not necessarily equate to legalresponsibility. A person is legally responsible for an event when a legal system is liable...
In the practice of international law, command responsibility (also superior responsibility) is the legal doctrine of hierarchical accountability for war...
shares legalresponsibility with the commander of the aircraft (joint responsibility dispatch system). Dispatchers usually share responsibility for the...
and blood and the other a separate legal personality (i.e., the "strawman") and that one's legalresponsibilities belong to the strawman rather than the...
corporate social responsibility from the traditional economic and legalresponsibility to ethical and philanthropic responsibility in response to the...
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person, actions, and decisions, thus terminating the control and legalresponsibilities of their parents or guardian over them. Most countries set the age...
organization. Whilst historically these titles may have signified a legalresponsibility, for example at Companies House in the UK, the titles are less strict/formal...
Professional responsibility is a set of duties within the concept of professional ethics for those who exercise a unique set of knowledge and skill as...
or is supplied by, the Contractor and not the owner, so that the legalresponsibility for the design, suitability and performance of the work after completion...
form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legalresponsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes...
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Pacific region. This translated into the transfer of new areas of legalresponsibility (civil law, commercial law, labour law) while protecting existing...
obligations, the rules of state responsibility determine, in general, when an obligation has been breached and the legal consequences of that violation...
the survivals of sexual slavery to state the Japanese government's legalresponsibility for the state-level crime of enforcing a system of sexual slavery...
Paria admitted they had no rescue plan, citing that they had 'no legalresponsibility to rescue the men'. Further external attempts to save the men were...
and quality of their actions—became the basis of the law governing legalresponsibility in cases of insanity in England. Under the rules, loss of control...
of Belgium, established by the Belgian constitution and having legalresponsibilities only within the precise geographical boundaries of the Dutch-language...
Daniels ruled in a federal district court in Manhattan that Iran bears legalresponsibility for providing "material support" to the 9/11 plotters and hijackers...
corporate officers who then have as "corporate" individuals the legalresponsibility to manage the corporation in the corporation's best interest. An...
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understood to be the responsibility of the relevant clinical professions. In 1999, Trust Boards assumed a legalresponsibility for quality of care that...
its official statement April 6, Mossack Fonseca suggested that responsibility for any legal violations might lie with other institutions: approximately 90%...
Donald Trump to dismiss lawsuits accusing the former President of legalresponsibility in the attacks. Amit Priyavadan Mehta was born in 1971 in Patan,...
lowering the age of criminal responsibility in Japan. The killer's name was not released to the press, as per Japanese legal procedures prohibiting the...
parent", refers to the legalresponsibility of a person or organization to take on some of the functions and responsibilities of a parent. Originally...