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| '''[[Negligence]]'''||'''[[Negligence]]''' ||— ||A reasonable person in that position would have foreseen the incipient calamity which would come about by following this course of action, but our hero, in actual fact, did not. Ergo, an unreasonable person. | | '''[[Negligence]]'''||'''[[Negligence]]''' ||— ||A reasonable person in that position would have foreseen the incipient calamity which would come about by following this course of action, but our hero, in actual fact, did not. Ergo, an unreasonable person. | ||
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| — || — ||'''[[Breach of contract|Default]]''' || You have agreed to do something, received consideration for it and, whether by accident or design, you didn’t do it. | | — || — ||'''[[Breach of contract|Default]]''' || You have agreed to do something, received consideration for it and, whether by accident or design, you didn’t do it. This is the ''[[contract|contractual]]'' equivalent of [[negligence]]: you had a duty, and you fell short of it. | ||
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| — || — ||'''[[Wilful default]]''' || You have agreed to do something, received [[consideration]] for it and, on purpose, you didn’t do it. (This is the same as [[default]], by the way. No-one cares ''why'' you didn’t do it). | | — || — ||'''[[Wilful default]]''' || You have agreed to do something, received [[consideration]] for it and, on purpose, you didn’t do it. (This is the same as [[default]], by the way. No-one cares ''why'' you didn’t do it). | ||