DAMAGES

compensation claimed by persons for breach of contract, lo sustained, infringement of copyright, slander, libel, breach of promise, etc. As regards breach of contract, Baron Park expre ed the opinion that ‘the rule of the common law is, that where a party sustains a lo by reason of a breach of contract, he is, so far as money can do it, to be placed in the same situation with respect to damages as if the contract had been performed.’ Damages cannot be recovered if they are too remote; nor can they be based on the intention of punishing the party who has committed the breach. But in a e ing the damages respect may be paid to prospective lo arising from the refusal of the defendant to perform his contract. In regard to lo or depreciation of goods sustained by land or sea, the consignee is the proper person to claim damages unle the goods are sent on approval, oben the consignor must make the aim. 32’ E.), seaport town, belonging to Portuguese, on Gulf of Cambay, Bombay, India; teak forests; cotton-weaving, fisheries; Portug. settlement since 1558. Area, 150 sq. miles. Pop. c. 60,000. town, Behera, Egypt; occupies site of ton goods; important statiun on CairoAlexandria railway. Pop. c. 39,000,