legal duty
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Definition(s):
- (n) acts which the law requires be done or forborne
Usage(s):
- President Coolidge has taken unto himself this extra-legal duty, as has many another President.
- Their legal duty was to answer the prosecutor's questions and to tell the truth honestly as they knew it, and the President's comments in no conceivable way affected that duty.
- If this cannot be accomplished promptly, the Turkish armed forces, fulfilling their legal duty to protect the republic, will take power.
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