Non-contractual obligation

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From the “shoot me now” file, the idea of a “non-contractual obligation” is relevant to:

(a) the terminally pedantic and

(b) those splendid, if terminally pedantic, folk whose handmaiden is the Rome II convention on governing law.

“Non-contractual obligations” includes claims based on tort (such as negligence), breach of competition law and breach of statutory duty which may nonetheless arise out of a contract without amounting to a breach of it. As you can imagine, this happens a lot in the context of financial markets transactions.

See also

• Rome II
• Governing law
• Non-exclusive jurisdiction