Comment by wjnc
3 years ago
Please explain? I've googled your sentiment and have found some links but not many answers. Breaking a contract is just as illegal (~ against the law) as breaking the law? This follows trivially from contract law being a part of law. More substantive: Both contracts and laws proscribe actions. One can find remedy for breaking either via the legal system. (Obviously the severity of punishment can differ several orders of magnitude.) Only if you limit 'illegal' to criminal law you might be right in some jurisdictions.
> This follows trivially from contract law being a part of law
That does not follow trivially. Contracts themselves are not articles of contract law.
Contracts themselves are not articles of contract law. - This is true, but the concept of inheritance holds.
'Illegal' ~ 'against the law'. What is doing something against the law? Doing something the law states you are not allowed to do. So in practice under continental law (Napoleonic / Germanic) a law states "do X" or "leave Y" and doing the opposite is illegal. Then, if the law states "you must (under good faith) fulfill your contract" and you do not fulfill your contract ... that's illegal. A legally binding contract has the force of law for the signing parties.
> Contracts themselves are not articles of contract law. - This is true, but the concept of inheritance holds.
Of 'inheritance'? What does this mean? Are you trying to apply the rules of OOP to contract law, as if an individual contract were an instance of contract law...?
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