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===The subtle difference between an | ===The subtle difference between an event of default and a fundamental breach of contract=== | ||
A | A ''[[fundamental breach of contract]]'' is a failure to perform its terms in such a way that deprives the other party of the basic benefit of the [[contract]]. | ||
An | This could be anything — like a duck, you know it when you see it — but beyond being an outright failure to perform one’s material obligations it need not, and logically cannot, be comprehensively articulated in the contract. | ||
An ''[[event of default]]'', on the other hand, ''is'' articulated, usually at [[Tedious|painful length]], in the [[contract]], which then contains detailed provisions setting out what should happen, to whom, by when, if an [[event of default]] befalls either party. | |||
Now while the same set of circumstances might be an [[event of default]] ''and'' a [[Fundamental breach|fundamental breach of contract]] — almost certainly will be, in fact — treating a case as an [[event of default]] is to see it as “infra-contractual action”,<ref>I just made that expression up, by the way</ref> contemplated by and provided for ''within the four corners of the [[contract]]''; while treating it as a [[fundamental breach]] is thereby ''to cast the whole contract into the fire''. For what good are the promises in it, after all, if the other fellow won’t keep them? | Now while the same set of circumstances might be an [[event of default]] ''and'' a [[Fundamental breach|fundamental breach of contract]] — almost certainly will be, in fact — treating a case as an [[event of default]] is to see it as “infra-contractual action”,<ref>I just made that expression up, by the way</ref> contemplated by and provided for ''within the four corners of the [[contract]]''; while treating it as a [[fundamental breach]] is thereby ''to cast the whole contract into the fire''. For what good are the promises in it, after all, if the other fellow won’t keep them? |