Sentence examples for customary obligations from inspiring English sources

The freeing of the labourer from feudal and customary obligations created a free market in labour, with a pivotal role for a specific social type, the entrepreneur.

In WNB study communities, traditional penile practices were considered within the context of a wider cultural framework whose observation enables customary obligations towards family members, in-laws and other relatives to be fulfilled through the exchange of goods and in-kind contributions.

My customary obligation not to vote comes from my Anaywan Aboriginal nationality.

Aisha's father, Hajji Muhammed Zai, reached by telephone, confirmed that he had agreed to the betrothal of Aisha and her younger sister to Mr. Sulaiman's family members, in payment of what is called "baad," a customary obligation owed by his own family.

He also complied with the customary obligation of a son giving his father all earnings from work done outside the home until the age of twenty-one.

A slave who had acquired libertas was a libertus ("freed person," feminine liberta) in relation to his former master, who then became his patron (patronus): the two parties continued to have customary and legal obligations to each other.

A notion of property in land emerged at the end of the 12th century in England from a mass of partly discretionary, partly customary, feudal rights and obligations.

Desecrating bodies of the fallen enemy is no doubt a war crime and a violation of both U.S. treaty obligations and customary international law, forbidden by the First and Second Geneva Conventions, the 1907 Hague Convention X and the Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions.

Whether sharing obligations arose under customary international law when this controversy arose is also doubtful.

"Meanwhile, states actually possessing these destructive weapons have hardly even talked the talk, while completely brushing off their disarmament obligations under NPT and customary international law.

Until you hear otherwise, it is wise to assume that this technology does not relieve the reader of the obligation to exercise the customary caution.