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PRIMA FACIE DUTY [1 record]

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Record 1 2010-08-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
  • Law of Obligations (civil law)
  • Insurance
DEF

A duty that is conditioned on the occurrence of an event other than the lapse of time.

CONT

A prima facie duty (also called "conditional duty") is a "characteristic . . . which an act has, in virtue of being of a certain kind . . . , of being an act which would be a duty proper if it were not at the same time of another kind which is morally significant." A prima facie duty is fundamentally different from "a duty proper or actual duty."

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
  • Droit des obligations (droit civil)
  • Assurances
CONT

Une obligation est conditionnelle lorsqu'elle dépend d'un événement futur et incertain, soit parce qu'elle est suspendue jusqu'à ce que l'événement arrive, soit parce qu'elle est résiliée, en la résiliant, selon que l'événement arrive ou n'arrive pas.

Spanish

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