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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.
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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).
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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. Unclear how there is room for this in a contract given [[Breach of contract|normal default]] and the already redundant [[wilful default]].
| — || — ||'''[[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. Unclear how there is room for this in a [[contract]] given [[Breach of contract|normal default]] and the already redundant [[wilful default]].
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| '''[[Recklessness]]'''|| — ||— ||Our hero ''did'' foresee the incipient calamity and, while not wanting it, boxed on regardless.
| '''[[Recklessness]]'''|| — ||— ||Our hero ''did'' foresee the incipient calamity and, while not wanting it, boxed on regardless.

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