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| '''[[Blameless inadvertence]]''' || '''[[Blameless inadvertence]]''' || Neither intended, wanted, foresaw, nor can reasonably have been expected to foresee the calamity that in fact came about. | | '''[[Blameless inadvertence]]''' || '''[[Blameless inadvertence]]''' || '''[[Blameless inadvertence]]''' || Neither intended, wanted, foresaw, nor can reasonably have been expected to foresee the calamity that in fact came about. | ||
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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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| — || '''[[ | | — || — ||'''[[Default]]''' || You have agreed to do something, received consideration for it and, whether by accident or design, you didn’t do it. | ||
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| — || '''[[Wilful default]]''' || | | — || — ||'''[[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). | ||
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| '''[[ | | — || — ||'''[[Gross negligence]]'''|| Even a faintly moronic 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, a stridently moronic person. | ||
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| '''[[Intention]]'''|| — || Not only foresaw the calamity but acted fully intending it to come about. | | '''[[Recklessness]]'''|| — ||— ||Our hero ''did'' foresee the incipient calamity and, while not wanting it, boxed on regardless. | ||
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| '''[[Intention]]'''|| — || — ||Not only foresaw the calamity but acted fully intending it to come about. | |||
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