correlative duties

collocation in English

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duty
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈdʒuː.ti/us
/ˈduː.t̬i/
something that you have to do because it is part of your job, or something that you feel is the right thing ...
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(Definition ofdutyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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If the property owner has the right to exclude people from his property, on whom does thecorrelativedutyfall?
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Prude is also violating hiscorrelativedutynot to obstruct lewd's selfregarding choice.
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Protection of the individual's right to self-regarding liberty in those cases is then left solely to others' conscientious fulfilment of their correlative duties.
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Irreconcilable conflicts of naked liberties pose no problems of contradiction since there are no conflicts of correlative duties.
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Unlike negative rights such as refusal of treatment, positive rights do not establish "correlative duties" on the part of the healthcare provider.
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Claims (and their correlative duties) concern what one may or may not do.
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But the liberty-right does not imply that others have correlative duties to allow the liberty-holder to achieve his preferred outcome.
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It exists provided that society has established a legal or moral code that distributes the relevant claims and correlative duties.
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Initially, it may be tempting to think that deontological rights (and the correlative duties they impose) logically entail substantive liberties.
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But he cannot be read as a crude act-utilitarian who dispenses with rules distributing rights and correlative duties for the calculation of best acts.
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Person i exercises his claim to liberty by actually choosing to demand or waive fulfilment of the correlative duties by their bearers.
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More specifically, the claim-right operates by specifying correlative duties with respect to (x, y) which others are required to fulfil if the claim-holder demands fulfilment.
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