 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1918 - 1116 pages
...intention of the law in giving damages for breach of contract ia that the plaintiff should be placed in the same position as he would have been in if the contract had been performed. In the case of late delivery the measure thereof in order to indemnify... | |
 | Harry Augustus Bigelow, Joseph Warren Madden - Real property - 1919 - 886 pages
...breaches which may in future be incurred. The arbitrator must see what sum of money will put the plaintiff in the same position as he would have been in if the covenant not to assign the lease had not been broken, and the plaintiff had retained the liability... | |
 | Harry Augustus Bigelow - Personal property - 1919 - 768 pages
...breaches which may in future be incurred. The arbitrator must see what sum of money will put the plaintiff in the same position as he would have been in if the covenant not to assign the lease had not been broken, and the plaintiff had retained the liability... | |
 | Bar associations - 1928 - 848 pages
...for breach of contract, the party complaining should, as far as it can be done by money, he placed in the same position as he would have been in if the contract had been performed. . . . When the delivery of goods purchased is delayed, the goods are presumed... | |
 | Law - 1924 - 580 pages
...damages for breach of contract the party complaining should so far as it can be done by money be placed in the same position as he would have been in if the contract had been performed; (Chapman v. Larin, 4 SCR, 349; Wertheim v, Chicoutimi Pulp Company, 80... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1912 - 764 pages
...damages for the breach of a contract, the party complaining shall be placed, as far as money can do so, in the same position as he would have been in if the contract had been performed. And in the second, that, if the party bound to perform a contract does... | |
 | Law reports, digest, etc - 1912 - 582 pages
...intention of the law in giving damages for breach of contract is that the plaintiff should be placed in the same position as he would have been in if the contract had been performed. In the case of late delivery the measure thereof in order to idemnify... | |
 | Law - 1914 - 318 pages
...respect of a breach of contract are such as will place the plaintiff, in so far as money can do it, in the same position as he would have been in if the contract had been duly performed: (see, inter alia, 168 DECEMBER, 1913.] 169 Robinson v. Harman, l... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1873 - 964 pages
...the 30th Nov. — and the measure of damages is that sum of money which would have put the plaintiff in the same position as he would have been in if the contract had been duly performed. He would have had to go into the market at the end of each of the... | |
 | Commercial law - 1922 - 874 pages
...damages for breach of contract the party complaining should, so far as it can be done by money, be placed in the same position as he would have been in if the contract had been performed. (Irvine v. Midland Railway Co., Ireland (1880) 6 LR Irish, page КЗ,... | |
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And it is the general intention of the law that, in giving damages for breach of contract, the party complaining should, so far as it can be done by money, be placed in the same position as he would have been in if the contract had been performed. 
