This section is from the book "The Law Of Contracts", by Samuel Williston. Also available from Amazon: Treatise on the Law of Contracts.
Compensation is the fundamental principle............................ 1338
Compensation should be not the value of the contract, but of the performance of the contract.............................................. 1339
Exceptions to the principles of compensation.......................... 1340
Recovery for the plaintiff's preparations.............................. 1341
Value............................................................ 1342
Value to the plaintiff............................................... 1343
Proximate and natural consequences................................. 1344
Damages must be reasonably certain................................. 1345
Certainty of damage and certainty of amount of damage................ 1346
Illustrations of consequential damages allowed when the defendant had proper notice.................................................... 1347
Principle is applicable to partial breach............................... 1348
Unilateral and bilateral contracts.................................... 1349
Rule of damages where promises are dependent........................ 1360
Where the defendant's performance is due before the plaintiff's.......... 1351
Recovery of full value of defendant's performance where plaintiff's performance is of no value............................................... 1352
Avoidable consequences............................................ 1353
Replacement...................................................... 1354
When consequential damages are natural and proximate................ 1355
The rule of Hadley v. Baxendale..................................... 1356
Basis of the rule in Hadley v. Baxendale.............................. 1357
 
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