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Re: OT: the euro & 01.01.02 (was NATLANG/FONT:

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Thursday, December 27, 2001, 15:58
David Starner wrote:


> I was always the apprehension that, at least in the US, the only people > who have to use legal tender is the Government. Everyone else was merely > governed by contract law - i.e., if our contract tells you to deliver in > pounds, you deliver in pounds, just like if the contract said to deliver > in televisions, or Rembrandants.
There are complex and rather OT legal issues here, but essentially there are two kinds of deliverable goods: those for which you must deliver the very thing itself, and those for which anything of the same kind will do. But in a pinch, since Anglo-American law courts will not order specific performance of a contract, if you are willing to pay monetary damages, you can get out of doing anything else. -- Not to perambulate || John Cowan <jcowan@...> the corridors || http://www.reutershealth.com during the hours of repose || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan in the boots of ascension. \\ Sign in Austrian ski-resort hotel