Consequential damages, otherwise known as special damages, are damages you can prove occurred because of the failure of one party to meet a contractual obligation. They go beyond the contract itself and into the actions garnished from the failure to fulfill. The type of claim giving rise to the damages can affect the rules or calculations associat...
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Those damages or those losses which arise not from the immediate act of the party, but in consequence of such act; such as if a man throws a log into the public streets and another falls upon it and become injured by the fall; or if a man should erect a dam over his own ground, and by that means overflow his neighbor's, to his injury.
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Damage or injury that does not directly and immediately result from a wrongful act, but is a consequence of the initial act. To be awarded consequential damages in a lawsuit, the damages must be a foreseeable result of the initial act.
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In law, consequential damages are such losses or damages as arise out of a person's act, for which, according to a fundamental principle in law, he or she is answerable if he or she could have avoided them.
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