Contracts - Performance and Non-performance

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Civil Code:

Article

第 220 條

債務人就其故意或過失之行為，應負責任。

過失之責任，依事件之特性而有輕重，如其事件非予債務人以利益者，應從輕酌定。

Article 220   

The debtor shall be responsible for his acts, whether intentional or negligent.

The extent of responsibility for one's negligence varies with the particular nature of the affair; but such responsibility shall be lessened, if the affair is not intended to procure interests to the debtor.

Vocabulary

債務人  [zhàiwùrén]  /debtor/

就  [jiù]  /for/

其  [qí]  /his/her/its/theirs/that/such/it (refers to sth preceding it)/

故意  [gùyì]  /deliberately/on purpose/

或  [huò]  /or/

過失  [guòshī]  /neglegent/

之  [zhī]  /(literary equivalent of 的)/

行為  [xíngwéi]  /action/conduct/behavior/activity/

應  [yìng]  /shall/

負責任  [fùzérèn]  /responsibility for/

責任  [zérèn]  /responsibility/blame/duty/

依  [yī]  /according to/

事件  [shìjiàn]  /event/happening/incident/

特性  [tèxìng]  /property/characteristic/

而  [ér]  /語氣詞,無義/

有  [yǒu]  /to have/there is/there are/to exist/to be/

輕重  [qīngzhòng]  /degree/

如  [rú]  /if/

非  [fēi]  /non-/not-/un-/

予以  [yúyǐ]  /to give/

利益  [lìyì]  /benefit/(in someone`s) interest/

者  [zhě]  /-ist, -er (person)/person (who does sth)/

從  [cóng]  /from/obey/observe/follow/

酌定  [zhuódìng]  /make a decision as one thinks fit/decide according to one's judgment/