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2.6 REMEDY FOR BREACH OF CONTRACT

• A contract is an agreement or promise made between two or

more parties that the courts will enforce. In some cases, the

agreements and promises made in a contract are not kept by a

party or more parties. Therefore, this situation called breach

of contract and will resulted in proceeding remedy.

• Breach of contract means failure to keep the promises or

agreements of a contract.

• Remedy is a way of finding a solution using the law.

2.6.1 DAMAGES (AN AWARD OF MONEY)

Damages mean losses or costs incurred due to another’s

wrongful act.

✓ Damages are granted to a party as compensation for the

damage, loss, or injury he or she has suffered through a breach

of contract.

✓ Courts calculation of what it would cost to put the plaintiff

back into the position he or she would have been in but for the

fraud. This amount of value that has been lost is due to the
breach of the contract in any of the contracts.

✓ When a contract is breached, the liquidated damages could be

imposed.

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