Contractual Relationships

Question 1

Breach of Contract

Answer 1

fails to perform a duty without a valid excuse

Question 2

Injunction

Answer 2

An order forcing someone to do something, or refrain from doing something

Question 3

Expectation Damages

Answer 3

the money required to put one party in the position she would have been in had the other side performed the contract

Question 4

Expectation Interest

Answer 4

what the injured party reasonably thought she would get from the contract

Question 5

Compensatory damages

Answer 5

flow directly from the contract. In other words, these are the damages that inevitably result from the breach

Question 6

Consequential damages

Answer 6

those resulting from the unique circumstances of this injured party.
only if the breaching party should have foreseen them when the two sides formed the contract.

Question 7

Incidental damages

Answer 7

relatively minor costs that the injured party suffers when responding to the breach

Question 8

Reliance Interest

Answer 8

This remedy focuses on the time and money the injured party spent performing his part of the agreement.

Question 9

promissory estoppel

Answer 9

A doctrine in which a court may enforce a promise made by the defendant even when there is no contract, if the defendant knew that the plaintiff was likely to rely on the promise, the plaintiff did in fact rely, and enforcement of it is the only way to avoid injustice.