An obligation is a requirement to take some course of action. It can be legal or moral. Law is a system of rules enforced through a set of Institutions used as an instrument to underpin civil obedience politics economics and society Morality (from the Latin la moralitas "manner character proper behavior" has three principal meanings There are also obligations in other normative contexts, such as obligations of etiquette, social obligations, and possibly the In terms of politics, obligations are requirements that are to fulfill. Etiquette is a code that governs the expectations of Social behavior, according to the contemporary conventional norm within a Society, Politics Politics is the process by which groups of people make decisions These are generally in the form of legal obligations, which incur a penalty for lack of fulfillment, although certain people are obliged to carry out certain actions for other reasons as well, which can be due to tradition or social reasons. Obligations vary from person to person, for example, a person holding a political office will generally have far more obligations than an average adult citizen, who themselves will have more obligations than a child. Obligations are generally granted in return for an increase in an individual’s rights or power.
Legal
Common obligations of citizens include a requirement to participate as a juror if called upon and to pay taxes, which is seen as a return for the right to participate in the electoral process and the financial and physical protection by the state. Another example, though not a common law obligation, is the US Constitutional requirement to participate in a census every ten years, which, like many legal obligations, often incurs a fine if not completed.
Other uses
The term obligate can also be used in a biological context to refer to species which must occupy a certain niche or behave in a certain way in order to survive. In biology, the opposite of obligated is facultative, meaning a species is able to behave in a certain way and may do so under certain circumstances, but that it can survive without having to perform this certain behavior. For example, species of salamanders in the family Proteidae are obligate paedomorphs, whereas species belonging to the Ambystomatidae are facultative paedomorphs. Mudpuppies or waterdogs are aquatic Salamanders of the family Proteidae. In Developmental biology, pedomorphosis (also spelled paedomorphosis) or juvenification is a phenotypic and/or genotypic change in Ambystomatidae is a family of salamanders belonging to the order Caudata in the class Amphibia.
See also
A convention is a set of agreed, stipulated or generally accepted Standards norms social norms or criteria, often taking the form of The Law of Obligations is one of the component private law elements of the civil law system of Law. Duty (from "due" that which is owing O Fr deu did past participle of devoir LatDictionary
obligation
-noun
- The act of binding oneself by a social, legal, or moral tie to someone.
- A social, legal, or moral requirement, duty, contract, or promise that compels someone to follow or avoid a particular course of action.
- A course of action imposed by society, law, or conscience by which someone is bound or restricted.
- (law) A legal agreement stipulating a specified payment or action; the document containing such agreement.
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