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by salvadors 4892 days ago
Lots of purely civil cases revolve around exactly that. If we have a contract that says I'll do some work for you and then you'll pay me for it, but then you subsequently don't pay me, then I'm in exactly the scenario you describe. But then I have to sue you for the money in civil court — I can't get you sent to prison for it.