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Expectation /Mitigation Cost of Completion. Proof problems (but money damages adequate). Money damages inadequate (perhaps the result of proof problems). Reliance. Return items equitable?. Specific Performance. Substantial breach requirement. Restitution. Recission.
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Expectation /Mitigation Cost of Completion Proof problems (but money damages adequate) Money damages inadequate (perhaps the result of proof problems) Reliance Return items equitable? Specific Performance Substantial breach requirement Restitution Recission
Expectation damages Total damages Breach Avoidable by proper mitigation
Expectation damages Total damages Breach Avoidable by proper mitigation Reasonably foreseeable
Expectation damages Provable damages Total damages Breach Avoidable by proper mitigation Reasonably foreseeable
Reliance damages Contract formed Time for non-breacher performance Breach Reliance expenses Non-breacher losses that would have occurred had the contract been performed Expectation damages
Restitution in the contractual setting Substantial Breach Contract formed Actual benefit conferred on defendant that it would be unjust to let defendant retain Reasonable value of the benefit conferred Actual damages
US. v. Algernon Blair Substantial Breach (failure to pay for crane use Contract formed Is there a benefit conferred on defendant that it would be unjust to let defendant retain? What is the reasonable value of the benefit conferred? Costal would have lost $37,000