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Consequential Damages and Foreseeability in Contract Law

Consequential Damages and Foreseeability in Contract Law A breach of contract can cause more than the immediate loss of the promised perform

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Reliance Damages and Restitution in Contract Law

Reliance Damages and Restitution in Contract Law When a contract is breached, the injured party may suffer a loss in more than one way. Some

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Expectation Damages in Contract Law

Expectation Damages in Contract Law When a contract is broken, one of the first questions the law must answer is simple but fundamental: Wha

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Capacity to Contract: Who Can Enter a Binding Contract?

Capacity to Contract: Who Can Enter a Binding Contract? Contract law generally assumes that people who make agreements understand what they

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Assignment vs. Delegation: What’s the Difference?

Assignment vs. Delegation: What’s the Difference? Contracts are usually made between specific parties. But contractual relationships do not

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Third-Party Beneficiary Rights in Contract Law

Third-Party Beneficiary Rights in Contract Law A contract does not always benefit only the people who sign it. Sometimes two parties enter i

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Privity of Contract: Who Can Enforce a Contract?

Privity of Contract: Who Can Enforce a Contract? A contract can affect many people, but that does not mean every person affected by a contra

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Specific Performance as a Contract Remedy

Specific Performance as a Contract Remedy When one party breaches a contract, the most familiar remedy is money damages. A court calculates

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Liquidated Damages vs. Penalties in Contract Law

Liquidated Damages vs. Penalties in Contract Law When parties enter into a contract, they sometimes know that a breach could cause financial

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Mitigation of Damages in Contract Law

Mitigation of Damages in Contract Law When a contract is breached, the injured party may be entitled to damages. But the law does not genera

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Substantial Performance in Contract Law

Substantial Performance in Contract Law A contract does not always have to be performed perfectly for the performing party to be entitled to

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Anticipatory Breach and Repudiation of Contract

Anticipatory Breach and Repudiation of Contract A contract may be breached before the date on which performance is actually due. At first th

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