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The Requirement of Conduct

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Responsibility and Criminal Liability

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The discussion of liability systems in Chapter 3 disclosed that there are many variations of the conditions for liability and, thus, many possible systems. One condition required in all the systems proposed was that of behavior on the part of some person as the occasion for liability. Even in the fictitious random system, wherein one person could be liable for the non-voluntary acts of another, it was a basic prerequisite of liability that someone did something.

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    C. T. Sistare

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Sistare, C.T. (1989). The Requirement of Conduct. In: Responsibility and Criminal Liability. Law and Philosophy Library, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2440-6_4

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