Cumul or not Cumul: A Span­ish Per­spect­ive

De­vel­op­ment sum­mary

Pedro Del Olmo con­siders how Span­ish law struc­tures the re­la­tion­ship between con­trac­tu­al and tor­tious li­ab­il­ity in light of the basic fea­tures of each non-contractual li­ab­il­ity regime. Fo­cus­ing on the role of the non-cumul rule in a legal system be­long­ing to the French co­di­fic­a­tion tra­di­tion, the art­icle sets out both its tra­di­tion­al mean­ing and a nar­row­er read­ing that af­firms the primacy of con­tract law over tort law.