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Obligation vs Obligator - What's the difference?

obligation | obligator |

In lang=en terms the difference between obligation and obligator

is that obligation is a legal agreement stipulating a specified payment or action; the document containing such agreement while obligator is one who establishes an obligation under law.

As nouns the difference between obligation and obligator

is that obligation is the act of binding oneself by a social, legal, or moral tie to someone while obligator is one who establishes an obligation under law.

obligation

English

(wikipedia obligation)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of binding oneself by a social, legal, or moral tie to someone.
  • A social, legal, or moral requirement, duty, contract, or promise that compels someone to follow or avoid a particular course of action.
  • A course of action imposed by society, law, or conscience by which someone is bound or restricted.
  • (legal) A legal agreement stipulating a specified payment or action; the document containing such agreement.
    • X shall be entitled to subcontract its obligation to provide the Support Services. <>
  • * 1668 December 19, , “Mr.'' Alexander Seaton ''contra'' Menzies” in ''The Deci?ions of the Lords of Council & Se??ion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 575
    • The Pupil after his Pupillarity, had granted a Di?charge to one of the Co-tutors, which did extingui?h the whole Debt of that Co-tutor, and con?equently of all the re?t, they being all correi debendi , lyable by one individual Obligation , which cannot be Di?charged as to one, and ?tand as to all the re?t.

    Usage notes

    * Adjectives often used with "obligation": moral, legal, social, contractual, political, mutual, military, perpetual, etc.

    Synonyms

    * duty

    Antonyms

    * right

    Related terms

    * obligate * obligated * obligational * obligato * obligatorily * oblige * obligee * obliger * obliging * obligingly * obligingness * obligor

    obligator

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (legal) One who establishes an obligation under law
  • * 1993 , Michael J. Lacey & Knud Haakonssen, A culture of rights: the Bill of Rights in philosophy, politics, and law , page 29,
    • It should here be explained that in this form of natural-law theory, there is a distinction between the "obligator " who puts us under the obligation to do our duty, and the beneficiary of this duty.

    Coordinate terms

    * agent * beneficiary * obligatee

    See also

    * obligor ----