Convention and Obligation in Commitment

Some legalists have divided the notion of commitment into debt and responsibility, and thought that the two might be separated. Reflection upon the legal concept of commitment and the juridical concept of debt shows that the two concepts are deeply different in nature; the former is an obligatory rule while the latter is a provisional one. Furthermore, in some cases, two rules may be agreed, or a separation between the two may occur.The present article is to study that whether commitment is,juridically speaking, a simple point or a compound one; and in the latter case, out of which elements it has been combined. Dividing the commitment into two provisional elements and two obligatory ones, the present article tries to analyze the concept of commitment and its elements in the form of the traditional and familiar terms of provision and obligation or provisional and obligatory rules, and study the effectsof the two rules in brief.