Law and Responsibility

Law

Law noun - A rule of conduct or action laid down by a governing authority and especially a legislature.

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Responsibility and law are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Responsibility" instead a noun "Law".

Nearby Words: lawful, lawless, laws, lawfulness, lawfully

Responsibility noun - The state of being held as the cause of something that needs to be set right.

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Law and responsibility are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Law" instead a noun "Responsibility".

Nearby Words: responsible, responsibly

human	human law	human responsibility
physical	physical law	physical responsibility
actual	actual law	actual responsibility
real	real law	real responsibility
Other adjectives: little, main, criminal, general, federal, basic.

English law has a similar concept "diminished responsibility" which is exclusively a defence to a murder charge.

Source: Artistic License Law
Each NPC in the game has an assigned "responsibility" value, which determines how strictly they follow the law and also how they will report violations of the law.

Source: Video Game / The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
The position of "Sheriff" in Norman England had a lot of power, because it gave the bearer responsibility for maintaining the law throughout the parish, and had proxy authority from the king himself.

Source: Dirty Cop

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