The I.R.A. maintains that its cease-fire, now in its third year, is proof enough that it is cooperating and argues that as an undefeated army it has no obligation to surrender weapons.
He argues that this legal obligation to surrender one's person to one's spouses makes marriage different from a monogamous relationship between two unmarried partners.
A further concern has to do with whether anyone who undertakes a contractual obligation to surrender custody of future children can do so autonomously.
In what one professor has called an "ironic inversion", the Prosecutor's office has argued that Libya is under no obligation to surrender Mr. Gaddafi, concurring with the Libyan government that Article 95 of the Rome Statute permits the suspect's surrender to be postponed while the Court decides on the admissibility of the case.
The answer, according to the minister at the time, is that there is no obligation for airports to provide drinking water, even though passengers are obliged to surrender their own.
That's because there is no obligation for Flynn to surrender those service-related privileges despite his new status as an admitted criminal, experts say.
Bashir's visit to Chad would be his fourth in four years since the arrest warrants were issued despite Chad being a state party to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC), which carries with it obligations to arrest and surrender any ICC suspect.
Nick's men have the kind of crushing financial obligations — pregnant wives, a crack habit, debts to loan sharks — that make them reluctant to surrender the swag.
Other times, he seemed full of regret, explaining his failure to surrender or escape as his way of fulfilling "a moral obligation to stay" with the colonel before adding, "My courage failed me".
"Somebody wants to surrender".
