Usually means: Duty derived from ethical principles.
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  4. Moral obligation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  6. moral obligation: FreeDictionary.org
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  3. moral obligation: Legal dictionary

(Note: See moral_obligations as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (moral obligation)

noun:  (law) A duty which one owes and ought to perform on the basis of considerations of right and wrong, but which he is not legally bound to fulfill, as a duty to be charitable, a duty to pay a debt barred by the act of limitations, etc.

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