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Once a court decides that there has been a breach of contract, it must then judge how the party in breach must compensate the other party. The usual award is damages - monetary compensation. The court must be satisfied that there was a contract, that one party is in breach, and that the other party has suffered some loss because of the breach. In addition to financial loss a plaintiff sometimes tries to claim damages for mental distress caused by the breach of contract. Such claims are less successful in Britain than in the US, except for holiday contracts (though often successful in tort actions). A court will award damages only for loss closely connected with the defendant's breach. For example, in the 1949 English case of Victoria Laundry rv Newman Industries, the defendants were five months late in delivering a new boiler for the laundry.
The laundry claimed damages first for profits they would probably have made by being able to increase their regular laundry customers if they had had the boiler on time; and second, for profits they might have made if the boiler had enabled them to take on new dyeing contracts. The court decided that the first claim was reasonable but that the second was too remote. Remoteness is an impor tant concept in both contract and tort. , -, In deciding just how much in damages to aAvard, English and American courts try to put the plaintiff into the same financial posStion that he would have been in if the defendant had carried out the contractInstead of damages, a plaintiff sometimes esks the court to force the other contractor to carry out the contract. In English leAw this is called specific performance.
The court will not agree to do this if it causes fcnardship to the defendant, however, or if it is no longer possible or practical to carry 0ut the contract. Sometimes the court decides to award damages instead ol specific performance, and sometimes it awards both. A plaintiff may also ask the court to a \ Arard an injunction against the defendant, that is, to order the defendant not to do> something which would be in breach of contract. Specific performance and injunctions are remedies which were developed by the courts of equity because of inadequacies in the common law courts.V
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- LESSON 5 CIVIL AND PUBLIC LAV /
remedies criminal procedure civil procedure to bring a criminal prosecution against приватне право римське право; внутрішньодержавне право; цивільне право; позитивне право галузь права публічне право; публічний закон суперечки між громадянами суперечки між громадянами і державою (штатом) - договірне право; договірно-обяеа-тельственное право - деликтное право - правові норми
- LESSON WHAT is LAY /?
Remedies - право, закон - юриспруденція, правознавство, законо ведення, судова практика-викладати, пояснювати-підтримувати порядок-вирішувати спори-покладати, накладати відповідальність-мати право (претензію) вимоги к.., -право та порядок-рішення суперечок-закони про прибутковий податок-потерпіти невдачу; не мати успіху-неправильне утримання (податку)-піддаватися покаранням
- LESSON 13 THE JUDICIAL BRANCH. THE SYSTEM OF COURTS IN THE UNITED STATES
remedies-things they are asking the courts to give them. 2 The most common remedy is damages to compensate for a loss. 3. The loss may be something concrete, such as damage to a reputation resulting from a libellous publication. 4. Closely related to damages is restitution, the return of something belonging to a person, such as land or corporate bonds (облігації). 5. Another kind of
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