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The general law of remedies incorporates rules dealing with topics such as damages, restitutionary relief, specific performance, and punitive damages.

The general law of remedies reveals most of the leading policies of contract and related law.

Lawyers turn to the general law of remedies as planners, drafters, interpreters, counselors, negotiators, and litigators.

<p>The standard of damages applicable in cases of trespass.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Because he had deliberately breached his building contract.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The cost of laying a lead pipe as provided in the agreement.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Breach creates a feeling of injury that cannot be fully remedied with money.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Subjects believed breach was morally objectionable and should be punished with supracompensatory damages.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>2.19 times the expectation value.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>66.7 percent.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The cost of remedying the defect is the 'proper' measure of damages.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The owner's right to improve his property is not trammeled by its small value.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>No, the contractor would be compensated for his profit.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The subject matter being trackage property in the margin of such an area of population and industry.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The three principal purposes of awarding contract damages are the prevention of unjust enrichment, the protection of the reliance interest, and the protection of the expectation interest.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The restitution interest is the interest protected when the plaintiff has conferred some value on the defendant in reliance on the defendant's promise and the court may force the defendant to disgorge the value received from the plaintiff to prevent unjust enrichment.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The reliance interest is the interest protected when the plaintiff has changed their position in reliance on the defendant's promise and damages may be awarded to undo the harm caused by the reliance.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The expectation interest is the interest protected when damages may be awarded to give the promisee the value of the expectancy which the promise created, or when the defendant may be compelled to render the promised performance or pay the money value of that performance.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The restitution interest involves unjust impoverishment and unjust gain, while the reliance interest involves the promisee's actual reliance on the promise without enriching the promisor.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The reliance interest is broader than the restitution interest and includes cases where the plaintiff has relied on the defendant's promise without enriching the defendant. The expectation interest entails losses of a positive character.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The restitution interest, which combines unjust impoverishment with unjust gain, presents the strongest case for relief.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The transition from compensation for change of position to compensation for loss of expectancy is a shift from corrective justice to distributive justice, where the law seeks to bring about a new situation and assumes a more active role.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The reasonable cost of completing the performance was upwards of $60,000.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The reasonable value of the property on the determinative date would have been $12,160.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The measure of damages adopted by the decision was the difference between the market value of plaintiff's land in the condition it was when the contract was made and what it would have been if defendant had performed.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The rule is that where the contractor wilfully and fraudulently varies from the terms of a construction contract, he cannot sue thereon and have the benefit of the equitable doctrine of substantial performance.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To seek a remedy for breach of duty</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>All of the above</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>All of the above</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Restitution interest</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Because it includes cases where the plaintiff has relied on the defendant's promise without enriching the defendant</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Compensation for loss of expectancy</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Maintenance of an equilibrium of goods among members of society</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Specific performance</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>66.7%</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>2.19 times the expectation value</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>5.5</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The measure of damages applicable in cases of trespass</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The cost of laying a lead pipe as provided in the agreement</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The contractor is liable for the cost of laying a lead pipe as provided in the agreement</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To prevent the defaulting promisor from gaining at the expense of the promisee</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The restitution interest</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The reliance interest</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The expectation interest</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The cost of remedying the defect</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The owner's right to improve the property is not restricted by its small value</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The hypothetical peak of accomplishment that would have been reached if the work had been done as demanded by the contract</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It would ignore the owner's right to contract and build for the future</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The difference between the market value of plaintiff’s land and what it would have been if defendant had performed</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The contractor cannot sue thereon and have the benefit of the equitable doctrine of substantial performance</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>$12,160</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The reasonable cost or value of performing what the defendant agreed but failed to perform</p> Signup and view all the answers