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

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.

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