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In broad terms, [[common law]] liability arises between two parties when one breaches its express or implied duties to the other.
In broad terms, [[common law]] liability arises between two parties when one breaches its express or implied duties to the other.


Express duties are easy: the parties agree them advance. They are governed by the law of [[contract]]. The standard of care is “did you do what you agreed to do?” A party’s state of mind when it fails to do so (whether wilful, inadvertent or something in between) doesn’t matter.
Express duties are what it promised to do (whether [[Wilful default|wilful]], [[Inadvertence|inadvertent]] or something in between) doesn’t matter. ''Did you do what you agreed to do, or didn’t you?''
 
''Did you do what you agreed to do, or didn’t you?''


There is a world of nuance in ''framing'' those duties — see below — but once framed, the question is binary.
There is a world of nuance in ''framing'' those duties — see below — but once framed, the question is binary.