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<p>In <a href="page.php?w=law">law</a>, an <b>omission</b> is a failure to act, which generally attracts different legal consequences from positive conduct. In the <a href="page.php?w=criminal_law">criminal law</a>, an omission will constitute an <a href="page.php?w=actus_reus">actus reus</a> and give rise to <a href="page.php?w=Legal_liability">liability</a> only when the law imposes a duty to act and the <a href="page.php?w=defendant">defendant</a> is in breach of that duty. In <a href="page.php?w=tort_law">tort law</a>, similarly, liability will</p><p>
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