True or False: An obligation is solely a duty and does not involve any rights.

False. An obligation includes both a duty and a corresponding right.

What is the difference between obligations and general duties in legal terms?

Obligations are a specific class of duties that correlate directly with rights in personam.

True or False: The duty to refrain from interference with the person or property of others is considered an obligation.

False. This duty is not classified as an obligation in the legal sense.

Fill in the blank: An obligation encompasses the legal relation known as ___, which includes both rights and duties.

Vinculum juris

Obligations recognized by English law are divisible into how many classes?

Four classes: contractual, delictal, quasi-contractual, and innominate.

True or False: A tort is defined as a civil wrong for which the remedy is an action for damages.

True.

Obligations arising from torts exclude which four kinds of wrongs?

Crimes, civil wrongs with remedies other than damages, breaches of contracts, and breaches of trusts or equitable obligations.

What distinguishes a contract implied in law from a contract implied in fact?

A contract implied in law is fictitious and not agreed upon, while a contract implied in fact is inferred from the conduct of the parties.

True or False: All debts are deemed to be contractual in origin according to common law.

True.

Fill in the blank: If a person is injured by a tort, they may choose to waive the tort and sue in ___ instead.

Contract.

What is the legal consequence if a person wrongfully takes and sells another's goods?

The wrongdoer is guilty of the tort of trespass and may be obliged to pay damages, but the injured party can choose to sue in contract instead of tort.

True or False: The law of contracts is considered a separate department from the law of torts.

True.

Fill in the blank: A judgment creates a debt that is considered ___ in nature.

Non-contractual.

The distinction between substantive law and procedure is primarily one of ___ rather than ___ in many cases.

Form; substance

True or False: A rule of evidence that a contract can only be proved by a writing is equivalent to a substantive rule that a contract is void unless reduced to writing.

True

A conclusive evidential fact tends to take the place of the ___ proved by it.

Fact

What is the significance of the rule that a child under the age of seven is incapable of criminal intention?

It serves as a rule of evidence but reflects the substantive rule that no child under that age can be punished for a crime.

Fill in the blank: A bond was originally a conclusive proof of a debt but has now become ___ of a debt.

Creative

True or False: The acts of a servant done about his master's business are always done with the master's authority.

True

What is an example of a procedural rule that has substantive implications as mentioned in the text?

The rule that a contract must be in writing to be enforceable corresponds to the substantive law that a contract is void unless it is in writing.