Multiple choice

Which one of the following is correct?

  1. Liberty and duty are jural opposites

  2. Duty cancels out liberty

  3. Both 1 and 2

  4. None of these
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C Correct answer
Explanation

In Hohfeld's jural relations, liberty and duty are jural opposites, not correlatives. Liberty (privilege) is the opposite of duty - if you have a liberty to do something, no one has a right that you should not do it. Duty is the opposite - you are legally required to act or refrain from acting. They cancel each other out - where liberty exists, duty cannot exist, and vice versa. This differs from right-duty pairs which are correlatives (your right implies another's duty).

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