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Deontology :: Deontology (n.) The science relat/ to duty or moral obligation.

Security :: Security (n.) One who becomes surety for another, or engages himself for the performance of another's obligation..

Order :: Order (n.) A body of persons having some common honorary distinction or rule of obligation; esp., a body of religious persons or aggregate of convents living under a common rule; as, the Order of the Bath; the Franciscan order..

Salvor :: Salvor (n.) One who assists in saving a ship or goods at sea, without being under special obligation to do so..

Bondage :: Bondage (a.) Obligation; tie of duty.

Hypotheca :: Hypotheca (n.) An obligation by which property of a debtor was made over to his creditor in security of his debt.

Bound :: Bound (p. p. & a.) Under legal or moral restraint or obligation.

Responsible :: Responsible (a.) Able to respond or answer for one's conduct and obligations; trustworthy, financially or otherwise; as, to have a responsible man for surety..

Bond :: Bond (n.) A writing under seal, by which a person binds himself, his heirs, executors, and administrators, to pay a certain sum on or before a future day appointed. This is a single bond. But usually a condition is added, that, if the obligor shall do a certain act, appear at a certain place, conform to certain rules, faithfully perform certain duties, or pay a certain sum of money, on or before a time specified, the obligation shall be void; otherwise it shall remain in full force. If the condi

Indebted :: Indebted (a.) Placed under obligation for something received, for which restitution or gratitude is due; as, we are indebted to our parents for their care of us in infancy; indebted to friends for help and encouragement..

Condition :: Condition (n.) A clause in a contract, or agreement, which has for its object to suspend, to defeat, or in some way to modify, the principal obligation; or, in case of a will, to suspend, revoke, or modify a devise or bequest. It is also the case of a future uncertain event, which may or may not happen, and on the occurrence or non-occurrence of which, the accomplishment, recission, or modification of an obligation or testamentary disposition is made to depend..

Acquittal :: Acquittal (n.) The act of acquitting; discharge from debt or obligation; acquittance.

Indebt :: Indebt (v. t.) To bring into debt; to place under obligation; -- chiefly used in the participle indebted.

Releasement :: Releasement (n.) The act of releasing, as from confinement or obligation..

Quit :: Quit (v.) Released from obligation, charge, penalty, etc.; free; clear; absolved; acquitted..

Antinomian :: Antinomian (n.) One who maintains that, under the gospel dispensation, the moral law is of no use or obligation, but that faith alone is necessary to salvation. The sect of Antinomians originated with John Agricola, in Germany, about the year 1535..

Disobligatory :: Disobligatory (a.) Releasing from obligation.

Renew :: Renew (v. t.) Specifically, to substitute for (an old obligation or right) a new one of the same nature; to continue in force; to make again; as, to renew a lease, note, or patent..

Redeem :: Redeem (v. t.) To ransom, liberate, or rescue from captivity or bondage, or from any obligation or liability to suffer or to be forfeited, by paying a price or ransom; to ransom; to rescue; to recover; as, to redeem a captive, a pledge, and the like..

Bounden :: Bounden (p. p & a.) Under obligation; bound by some favor rendered; obliged; beholden.

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