{"title":"Principles limiting compensatory damages","authors":"A. Burrows","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780198705932.003.0010","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"There can be said to be five principles limiting compensatory damages (ie which reduce the damages that full adherence to the compensatory aims would dictate) for both torts and breach of contract, and the role played by each can be briefly described as follows: The principal tests for remoteness centre on reasonable foreseeability or contemplation of the loss.","PeriodicalId":273138,"journal":{"name":"Remedies for Torts, Breach of Contract, and Equitable Wrongs","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Remedies for Torts, Breach of Contract, and Equitable Wrongs","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780198705932.003.0010","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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There can be said to be five principles limiting compensatory damages (ie which reduce the damages that full adherence to the compensatory aims would dictate) for both torts and breach of contract, and the role played by each can be briefly described as follows: The principal tests for remoteness centre on reasonable foreseeability or contemplation of the loss.