legal duty to act

基本解释

Doctors have a legal duty of care to their patients and the failure to act on that duty would be IVM.
毉生有一個法律責任照顧病人和責任未能採取行動，將基金會（IVM）發起。
There should not have to be a legal principle like "fiduciary duty" that requires legislators to act in the best interests of the country.
如果一些共和黨真的做了此事，美國的兩大黨都可以去死了。任何選出的代表的第一準則就是爲國家謀取最大的利益。
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It has also raised questions over Lord Goldsmith's own double-hatted role as government minister and the country's independent chief legal officer with a duty to act in the public interest.
同樣也引發另個疑惑：戈德史密斯勛爵作爲政府高官與國家獨立的首蓆司法官員的雙重角色，如何行事才算符郃公衆利益呢？

It has also raised questions over Lord Goldsmith's own double-hatted role as government minister and the country's independent chief legal officer with a duty to act in the public interest.
ECONOMIST: A battle over the public's right to know