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Full-Text Articles in Law
Residency Law Could Stabilize Local Economic Base, Chester Smolski
Residency Law Could Stabilize Local Economic Base, Chester Smolski
Smolski Texts
"Should city employees be required to live in the communities which employ them? This is the question which more and more cities are seriously considering as they seek ways to stem the unabated flow of their residents to the suburbs and to raise needed tax dollars."
Does The Constitution Mean What It Always Meant?, James W. Nickel, Stephen R. Munzer
Does The Constitution Mean What It Always Meant?, James W. Nickel, Stephen R. Munzer
Articles
No abstract provided.
Construction Of The Uniform Commercial Code: Ucc Section 1-103 And "Code" Methodology, Robert A. Hillman
Construction Of The Uniform Commercial Code: Ucc Section 1-103 And "Code" Methodology, Robert A. Hillman
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Statutory Liens And The Bankruptcy Act: U.C.C. § 2-702 And Section 67(C), Robert A. Green
Statutory Liens And The Bankruptcy Act: U.C.C. § 2-702 And Section 67(C), Robert A. Green
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
Punitive Damages In The Law Of Contract: The Reality And The Illusion Of Legal Change, Timothy J. Sullivan
Punitive Damages In The Law Of Contract: The Reality And The Illusion Of Legal Change, Timothy J. Sullivan
Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Tenure Rights In Contractual And Constitutional Context, Ronald C. Brown
Tenure Rights In Contractual And Constitutional Context, Ronald C. Brown
Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Book Review. Obligations In Polish Law By W. J. Wagner, Jurij Fedynskyj
Book Review. Obligations In Polish Law By W. J. Wagner, Jurij Fedynskyj
Articles by Maurer Faculty
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Liquidated Damages, Penalties And The Just Compensation Principle: Some Notes On An Enforcement Model And A Theory Of Efficient Breach, Charles J. Goetz, Robert E. Scott
Liquidated Damages, Penalties And The Just Compensation Principle: Some Notes On An Enforcement Model And A Theory Of Efficient Breach, Charles J. Goetz, Robert E. Scott
Faculty Scholarship
For more than five centuries, strict judicial scrutiny has been applied to contractual provisions which specify an agreed amount of damages upon breach of a base obligation. Although the standards determining the enforceability of liquidated damage clauses have developed novel and labyrinthine permutations, their motivating principle has remained essentially immutable. For an executory agreement fixing damages in case of breach to be enforceable, it must constitute a reasonable forecast of the provable injury resulting from breach; otherwise, the clause will be unenforceable as a penalty and the non-breaching party will be limited to conventional damage measures.
The historical genesis of …