 | 1901 - 1214 sivua
...general rule as stated to the breach of contracts, it has been said that a party sustaining loss thereby Is, so far as money can do it, to be placed in the...to damages as if the contract had been performed." The failure of appellant to fill his contract having necessarily resulted In the items of loss referred... | |
 | 1888 - 864 sivua
...force to these executory contracts for the sale of lands: Hopkins v. Lee, 6 Wheat. 109. That rule is, where a party sustains a loss, by reason of a breach...to damages, as if the contract had been performed: Robinson v. Harman, 1 Ex. 850. This case of Hopkins v. Lee, 6 Wheat. 109, is cited with approbation... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - 1888 - 992 sivua
...case of any delay in the receipt of the dispatch. The rule of tha common law would seem to be that where a party sustains a loss by reason of a breach...he is, so far as money can do it, to be placed in tha same situation with respect to damages as if the contract had been performed: Robinson v. ffarman,... | |
 | Charles Greenstreet Addison - 1888 - 814 sivua
...party, the latter is entitled to compensation in damages, — that is, so far as money can do it, he is to be placed in the same situation with respect to damages as if the contract had been performed. (a) All evidence tending to show what the damages really are is admissible ; but the pecuniary consideration... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - 1888 - 982 sivua
...case of any delay in the receipt of the dispatch. The rule of tha common law would seem to be that where a party sustains a loss by reason of a breach of contract, he is, so far aa money can do it, to be placed in the same situation with respect to damages as if the contract had... | |
 | 1888 - 912 sivua
...the law affords no definite rule by which the precise compensation for the injury can be ascertained. Where a party sustains a loss by reason of a breach of contract he is entitled to a recompense, compensation or satisfaction equal to the injury actually received by him... | |
 | Hawaii. Supreme Court - 1890 - 844 sivua
...to do, the other party is entitled to compensation in damages ; that as far as money can do it he is to be placed in the same situation with respect to damages as if the contract had been performed." I also told the jury that the measure of damages claimed by the plaintiff was not the correct way of... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick, Arthur George Sedgwick - 1891 - 856 sivua
...it, he must pay the whole damage sustained." Parke, B.( said : " The rule of the common law is, that where a party sustains a loss by reason of a breach...to damages, as if the contract had been performed. The case of Flureau v. Thornhill qualified that rule of the common law. It was there held, that contracts... | |
 | Thomas Brett - 1891 - 660 sivua
...damages in any given case to be assessed " ( ' ). The rule of the Common Law, said Baron Parke, is that where a party sustains a loss by reason of a breach...respect to damages as if the contract had been performed ( 2 ). The generality of this rule has, however, been considerably limited by the principle laid down... | |
 | James Mackintosh - 1892 - 300 sivua
...Vente, §§ 69-80. The English common law rule is that the party sustaining loss by breach of contract is, so far as money can do it, to be placed in the same position as if the contract had been performed. This is limited by the rule in Hadley v. Baxendale... | |
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The rule of the common law is, that where a party sustains a loss by reason of a breach of contract, he is, so far as money can do it, to be placed in the same situation, with respect to damages, as if the contract had been performed. 
