legal responsibility
collocation in Englishmeaningsoflegalandresponsibility
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legal
adjective
uk/ˈliː.ɡəl/us/ˈliː.ɡəl/
connected with ...
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responsibility
noun
uk/rɪˌspɒn.sɪˈbɪl.ə.ti/us/rɪˌspɑːn.səˈbɪl.ə.t̬i/
something that it is your job or duty to ...
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(Definition oflegalandresponsibilityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesoflegal responsibility
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A reason for the lack of penetration in government and administration may be thelegalresponsibilityof the organization for its actions.
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Debts that women might run up among local stores were thus thelegalresponsibilityof the husband.
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Vicarious liability, where the employer takeslegalresponsibilityfor the actions of its staff, provides some protection.
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Under these conditions, should society reduce the level of culpability orlegalresponsibilityfor lawbreakers found to have abnormal brain scans?
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Engineers read plans, have alegalresponsibility, make tradeoffs, and need flexibility.
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Of particular importance to an agent's moral andlegalresponsibilityis the agent's pattern of response to reasons, particularly when that pattern is self-imposed.
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One of the possible reasons for the lack of penetration in government and administration may belegalresponsibility.
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Yet the husband'slegalresponsibilityfor the debt obligations of the household meant that wives are rarely named in court records of civil litigation from the same era.
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If the self were not continuous, it could disavow responsibility for what it had done in the past; such a situation rendered morality,legalresponsibilityand sin nugatory.
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Whether we take criminal punishment to be justified for reasons of deterrence, rehabilitation, or retribution, the defendant's pattern of response to reasons is important to hislegalresponsibility.
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Creation of a physician-patient relationship does not depend on a particular setting; even medical advice imparted in an informal setting may establish a physician-patient relationship and concomitantlegalresponsibility.
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It had long been standard procedure for psychiatrists formulating new nosologies to advance deterministic, often highly materialistic explanations on behalf of insanity pleas or in favor of diminishedlegalresponsibility.
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Legalresponsibilityis widely acknowledged by engineers.
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Absent parents have a clearlegalresponsibilityto maintain their families wherever they can afford to.
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Legalresponsibilityfor the training of school governors rests with local education authorities, which plan in the light of local needs.
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Governors'legalresponsibilityin that regard has not changed.
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On whom will thatlegalresponsibilityand power actually fall?
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The primelegalresponsibilityto bring about improvements rests with the industry itself.
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There is nolegalresponsibility, that is clear.
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If the tenant has signed that agreement, it is, quite rightly, hislegalresponsibility.
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