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Acts Contrary to Morals, Good Customs, or Public Policy
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- What state of conduct does Article 21 expressly require?
- Which standards does Article 21 identify?
- What is Article 21’s stated consequence for its established wrongful conduct?
- A defendant deliberately inflicts proven injury through conduct established as contrary to good customs. The defendant …
- A claimant proves only an inadvertent harmless mistake and cites Article 21 as an automatic source of moral damages. Wh…
- A business deliberately stages a humiliating public incident against a customer for a vindictive purpose. The claimant …
- A claimant alleges that conduct is immoral solely because it frustrated a personal preference. No willful injury or leg…
- Distinguish Article 21 from a requirement that every wrong be separately punishable as a crime.
- Why does subjective offense alone not establish every Article 21 claim?
- Explain the difference between Article 20’s negligence wording and Article 21’s willful-injury wording.
- Is a mere breach of promise to marry, without independently actionable circumstances, itself an actionable wrong under …
- What distinguished the actionable conduct in Wassmer from a mere change of mind about marriage?