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mindmap
root(Legal Engineering)
    tort(Tort)
        Interference
        Breach("Breach
\(unlawful means)")
            Threat
            Inducement
        Negligence
        Conspiracy
            Intent("mens rea 
(to injure)")
    Equity
        Unjust("Enrichment
(unjust)")
    Contract
        offer("Offer
(unilateral)")
        Consideration
        accept("Acceptance
(by Performance)")

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harsh business practices do not form the basis for a (conspiracy) tort [^Mogul]

actual vs nominal / marginal harm

carelessness not malice [^Cattle]

carrot vs stick xref competition law

misfeance (deliberate)

consequential (direct) vs subsequential = but for test

force majeur vs mineur = external (timing attack) vs imperfect scribing (compiler)

[^Allen]: Allen v Flood [1898] AC 1

[^Cattle]: Cattle v Stockton Waterworks Co [1975] LR 10 QB 453

[^Exchange]: Telegraph Co v Gregory & Co [1896] 1 QB 147

[^Lumley]: Lumley v Gye [1853] 2 E & B 216

[^JT]: JT Stratford & Son Ltd v Lindley [1965] AC 269

[^Mogul]: Mogul Steamship Co Ltd v McGregor, Gow & Co [1889] LR 23 QBD 598

[^OBG]: OBG v Allen] [2007] UKHL 21

[^Torquay]: Torquay Hotel Co Ltd v Cousins [1969] 2 Ch 106