Measuring Damages in the Law of Obligations: The Search for Harmonised Principles

by Sirko Harder

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 wrong. In all these causes of action, damages usually aim to put the claimant into the position the claimant would be in without the wrong. Even though the main objective of damages is thus the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1841138630
• ISBN13: 9781841138633
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"