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7 - The Source of Obligations

from Part II - Values-Balancing Legal Reasoning

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2021

Peter M. Gerhart
Peter M. Gerhart
Affiliation:
Case Western Reserve University, Ohio
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Legal duties are derived by decisions that people have made, when obligations are fairly implied by those decisions.

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Obligationsgrounds of lawno-duty principlepersonal choiceduty
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Contract Law and Social Morality , pp. 85 - 93
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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  • The Source of Obligations
  • Peter M. Gerhart, Case Western Reserve University, Ohio
  • Book: Contract Law and Social Morality
  • Online publication: 04 February 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316480106.009
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  • The Source of Obligations
  • Peter M. Gerhart, Case Western Reserve University, Ohio
  • Book: Contract Law and Social Morality
  • Online publication: 04 February 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316480106.009
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  • The Source of Obligations
  • Peter M. Gerhart, Case Western Reserve University, Ohio
  • Book: Contract Law and Social Morality
  • Online publication: 04 February 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316480106.009
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