Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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natural obligation
See OBLIGATION.
natural obligation.
Civil law. A moral duty that is not enforceable by judicial action. ( Natural obligations are recognized in civil-law jurisdictions. While they are not enforceable by judicial action, something that has been performed under a natural obligation may not be reclaimed. For example, if an indigent patient in a hospital has no legal obligation to pay for the treatment but does so anyway, that person cannot later reclaim the payments voluntarily made. - Also termed obligatio naturalis.