Discussing and operating a distinction between the concepts of responsibility and legal responsibility has always been a "test stone" for doctrinaires, especially since accountability is not a concept that belongs only to the law, it is found in different senses and in philosophy, ethics or religion.
The present study, in addition to a series of terminological clarifications that it tries to make, aims to highlight the common fund of responsibility and responsibility represented by the need for social coexistence of people, considering that man is an essentially social being. In spite of this fact, the two terms of legal responsibility and responsibility, besides the close correlations, also present a series of particularities, which make them distinct in nature and content.