duty
Let an agent explain what a duty is and where duties come from, distinguish legal, professional, civic and moral duties, relay specific duties from statutes and codes in general terms, and route personal legal questions to professionals.
Research draft, second pass
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Purpose and description
Let an agent explain what a duty is and where duties come from, distinguish legal, professional, civic and moral duties, relay specific duties from statutes and codes in general terms, and route personal legal questions to professionals.
An obligation to act or refrain from acting, arising from law, contract, role, profession or morality, such as the duty of care, jury duty, civic duties, job duties and professional secrecy; duties correspond to rights and responsibilities and are enforced by legal sanction, professional discipline or social expectation depending on their source.
What it is for: Defining what a person or organisation must do.
It can be explain kinds and sources of duty; relay specific duties from statutes and codes; distinguish duties from rights and discretion; route personal legal questions.
Distinguishing features
Obligatory character
Source determines enforcement
Correlates with rights
Ranges from legal to moral
What it looks like
Not visible; a rule stated in law, contract, code or moral understanding.
How it is recognised
Obligation to act or refrain
Sources in law, contract, role or morality
A right is what one may claim; a duty is what one must do
Related models
is a kind of - an obligation
is a kind of - in registry terms
corresponds to - the correlative concept
is enforced by - when legal
In practice
Families and kinds
legal duties such as the duty of care
contractual duties
professional duties such as confidentiality
civic duties such as jury service and voting where compulsory
job duties and workloads
moral duties in ethical theory
duty as a customs charge, a separate sense
Standards and regulation
Statutes and case law defining legal duties
Professional codes of conduct
Employment contracts and job descriptions
Jury and civic service laws
Failure modes and hazards
Breach of duty and liability
Conflicting duties
Confusing moral and legal duties
Agents giving personal legal advice
Also called
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Also registered as vr.tr.duty-possession
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Concept What a duty is.
Definition.
Definition
Definition and sources.
Definition
Definition.
- What is a duty, and from which sources do duties arise? definition
- Is the question about a legal, professional, civic or moral duty, or about a customs duty? boundary
Rights
Duties and rights.
Rights
Rights.
- How do duties correlate with rights and differ from discretion? definition
- Which entry fits rights? action
Law Legal duties.
Law.
Legal
Legal duties.
Legal
Legal.
- What legal duties exist in a given area, such as the duty of care, in general terms? provenance
- Is the user asking about their own liability, which needs a lawyer? boundary
Breach
Breach and enforcement.
Breach
Breach.
- What happens when a duty is breached, and how are duties enforced? provenance
- Which entry fits liability? action
Roles Professional and civic duties.
Practice.
Professional
Professional duties.
Professional
Professional.
- What duties do professional codes impose, such as confidentiality? provenance
- Which entry fits professional ethics? action
Civic
Civic duties.
Civic
Civic.
- What civic duties exist, such as jury service, and how do they vary by country? provenance
- Which entry fits jury duty? action
Ethics Moral duty and theory.
Attribution.
Theory
Ethical theories.
Theory
Theory.
- How do deontological and other ethical theories treat duty, with positions attributed? provenance
- Is the presentation neutral? boundary
Conflict
Conflicting duties.
Conflict
Conflict.
- How are conflicts between duties analysed and resolved? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
What the second pass must settle
- Should duty of care be a separate entry?
- How should professional codes be linked?
- The registry entry has merged aliases from teaching load to legal obligation; should they be split off?