Measuring damages in the law of obligations : the search for harmonised principles /
This book challenges certain differences between contract, tort and equity in relation to the measure (in a broad sense) of damages. Damages are defined as the monetary award made by a court in consequence of a breach of contract, a tort or an equitable w.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; Portland, Or. :
Hart Pub.,
2010.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- The present remoteness test in tort
- The present remoteness test in contract
- A uniform remoteness test throughout the common law
- Remoteness of damage in equity
- Non-pecuniary loss in tort
- Non-pecuniary loss in contract
- Non-pecuniary loss in equity
- Contributory negligence in tort
- Contributory negligence in contract
- Contributory negligence in equity
- The present law of 'restituion for wrongs'
- The proper scope of 'restitution for wrongs'
- The present law of exemplary damages
- Objective of exemplary damages
- Defensibility of confining exemplary damages to tort
- The abolition or retention of exemplary damages
- Conclusion.