According to traditional contractual law principles, breach of contract is failure to fulfill a contractual obligation.

按照传统的契约法原理，违约就是对契约义务的违反。

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But it suggested the United States might have been kept from the top spot because of its low scores for contractual law and macroeconomic management.

但报告指出，美国最大的弱点就是合同法和宏观经济管理，它在这两项上的得分很低，因此，美国没能登上排行榜首位。

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The privity of contract is important principle in the classical contractual law system, which has been abidance generally in the continental law system and in the Anglo-American law system.

合同相对性是古典契约法上的重要原则，在大陆法系和英美法系均得到普遍遵守。

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It may be the closest we can collectively come to punishment, where the criminal law and contractual pension rights don't offer means of revenge.

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Thus, in a typical analysis, the lawyer is focused on a fact-specific transaction and would analyze each and every duty or obligation imposed by law and determine what must be done to comply and what must be avoided so as not to breach some duty imposed by statute, regulation, common law, or the contractual obligations underlying the transaction itself.

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But in these other areas, international law is more akin to contractual agreements, in which benefits are reciprocal and national sovereignty remains largely unaffected.

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