CLUSTER 2: PRIVATE LAW - Contract law 3: remedies

20 important questions on CLUSTER 2: PRIVATE LAW - Contract law 3: remedies

What is the goal of remedies?

Offer the other party compensation for breach and provide an incentive on a party to perform (legal enforcement of the contract0

What is the procedure of default?

Before a claim on basis of breach can be done the defendant has to be informed of the breach and provided with a term to remedy. After the term passed the defendant is in default.

When does default without notice occur?

If the contract contained a final term for the performance
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What are the steps of invoking  a remedy?

1. Breach
2. Default
3. Attributable (no force majeure)
4. Determine cause and differentiate between obligation of means (do your best)  and obligations of result.  
5. Remedy

What are the primary remedies for the different law systems?

Common law: damages
civil law: specific performance (but in practice mostly damages)

What happens with injunction of specific performance? What happend in common law?

With injunction of specific performance the defendant has to act or refrain from acting, conforming to the obligation.

common: reluctance to award specific performance, only allowed in limited circumstances where damages are no adequate remedy.

What does award of damages entail?

Getting money to compensate for the suffered osses because of breach of contract

What are the requirements to get an award of damages?

The party in breach must be in default.

common law: causality requirement where the damage must be foreseeable meaning it was a direct loss, not a consequential loss.

What is the limitations of remote damages in common law?

This means the damage should be causal to the breach of contract.

There are several kinds of damages distinguished according to jurisdictions. What are  kinds of damages that may be covered?

1. Personal injury: damage to a persons body or health
2. Property damage: harm to physical property
3. Pure economic loss: profit, time, stock, database or data files

What is the most important restriction on remedies?

Some jurisdiction do not allow recovery from pure economic loss

How can remedies be restricted?

1. Limitation clauses/ exemption clauses
2. Liquidated damages clauses

What is the limitation of remedies clause?

A clause resulting in a limited possibility of obtaining damages; limit amount of damage to a maximum

What is the liquidated damages clause?

Fixate the amount awarded for certain kinds of breach. When the amount is harder than the loss suffered it is a penalty clause

How can remedies on pure economic loss be enforeces since this is not recoverable (especially in the US)

Liquidated damages for certain breaches

What are the different awards of damages and what are their first harms?

Personal injury: bodily injury
property damage: harm to tangible object
pure economic loss: other kinds of harm f..e. Deleting databases.

What does termination for a contract mean?

Contract comes to an end, up to termination the contract is legal, after termination there are no obligations anmore

What are 3 termination situations?

1. Termination for breach
2. Termination for cause (on a ground that justifies terminating the contract such as death or insolvency)
3. Terminatin at will (a party is free to terminate without having to provide a reason)

What may be thhe conditions and requirements for termination?

- notice
- termination may give the other party right for damages or compensation

How shoul conditions for terminations be formulated?

- requirements for termination
- notive period
- damages/compensation
- by notive or by court

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