legal duty

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   acts which the law requires be done or forborne

   Broaderduty

   Narrowerfiduciary duty

   law

Questions about legal duty

What does legal duty mean?

legal duty means "acts which the law requires be done or forborne".

Is legal duty a common word?

legal duty is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.