As a general rule, contractual damages are available through legal action in English law if one of the contracting parties has broken a term of that contract. The breach of contractual obligations must have caused a loss, primarily financial.
The most common remedy is damages, where the court determines the damage that the breach of contract caused, and directs the party who breached the contract to pay a sum of money. In some circumstances, the court will make an order for specific performance.
Emotional distress refers to mental suffering as an emotional response to an experience that arises from the effect or memory of a particular event, occurrence, pattern of events or condition.
There are only three elements to a breach of contract claim in Arizona. First, you must establish that there was a legally enforceable contract. Second, you must establish that the terms of the contract were breached. Lastly, you must suffer financial injury as a result of the breach.
47-2725 - Statute of limitations in contracts for sale. A. An action for breach of any contract for sale must be commenced within four years after the cause of action has accrued. By the original agreement the parties may reduce the period of limitation to not less than one year but may not extend it.
Arizona's implied duty of good faith and fair dealing prohibits a party, as a matter of law, from doing anything to prevent another party from receiving the benefits it was entitled to under the contract.
Such contracts are agreements to pay money upon the occurrence of a specified event. Mental distress damages do not flow from the breach of such contracts. They are not ?personal.?
Compensatory damages (also called ?actual damages?) cover the loss the nonbreaching party incurred as a result of the breach of contract. The amount awarded is intended to make good or replace the loss caused by the breach.