Sentence examples for enforceable obligation from inspiring English sources

There was no effectively enforceable obligation for children to care for their parents.

But until the property is transferred, the original owner has a real right in the property (good, notionally, against the whole world), and the promisee has simply an enforceable obligation to have the property transferred.

The mere fact that Night Jack wished to remain anonymous did not mean either that he had a reasonable expectation of doing so, or that the Times was under an enforceable obligation to him in that respect, he said.

6. Nozick (1974) presents a highly hypothetical, and highly controversial, scenario describing how one could come to have such an enforceable obligation to pay for basic police services.

You have a claim-right against others not to be interfered with in the scratching of your nose if and only if others have an (enforceable) obligation not to interfere with you in this way.

"My father wasn't good at enforceable obligations, like husband to wife.

The issue before the Supreme Court is the Federal Arbitration Act, which recognizes some kinds of arbitration agreements as enforceable obligations — and whether that pre-empts the California law.

Since February, local officials throughout the state have been sifting through billions of dollars' worth of projects to determine which ones qualify as enforceable obligations entered into before June 29 , 2011 the date the legislation was signed into law.

Between different jurisdictions international treaties may create enforceable obligations to coordinate hazard assessments and risk mitigation strategies.

For instance, standardly, your right to scratch your nose consists in your having no obligation not to do so and others having (enforceable) obligations not to interfere with your doing so.

The strongest claim is typical of classical nationalism; its typical norms are both moral and, once the nation-state is in place, legally enforceable obligations for all parties concerned, including for the individual members of the ethno-nation.