Such a verdict cannot readily be assimilated to tort; it is most naturally explained and justified by the recognition of contract as a distinctive legal form.
Legal doctrine (both in its current state and through its genealogical reconstruction), economic theory, and moral theory might thus all be deployed against the view that contract represents a distinctive legal form.
Accordingly and as happened in connection with tort legal doctrine, economic theory, and moral thought are once again deployed against the view that contract represents a distinctive legal form.
If a promise happens also to be a contract, however, its breach creates a legal as well as a moral claim; this is, in fact, the very thing that marks contracts out as a distinctive class of promises.
Contract builders carried out the plans, adding a distinctive mix of innovative details and decorations as new designs emerged over the years.
But seldom has the view from such a distinctive building been threatened so soon after the ink on so many sales contracts has dried.
This history gives genomics firms a distinctive business model; one that involves both direct funding through government grants and contracts and indirect funding through sales of products and services to federally funded or nonprofit laboratories.
And if the CEO wants to hit the relative targets in her contract, she can't merely copy those innovations she'll have to create a distinctive advantage.
O.K., a distinctive sound.
Dillon is a distinctive figure.
It has a distinctive culture.
