Duty of honest contractual performance (or doctrine of abuse of rights)6
Duty of good faith (also implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing or duty to negotiate in good faith)7
Contract A and Contract B in Canadian contract law6
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Notes
1 Specific to common law jurisdictions
2 Specific to civil and mixed law jurisdictions
3 Historically restricted in common law jurisdictions but generally accepted elsewhere; availability varies between contemporary common law jurisdictions
4 Specific to the German Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch and other civil codes based on the pandectist tradition
5 Explicitly rejected by the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts
6 Specific to Canadian contract law both in Québec and in the country's common law provinces
7 Specific to civil law jurisdictions, the American Uniform Commercial Code, and Canadian jurisprudence in both Québec and the common law provinces pertaining to contractual and pre-contractual negotiation
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In legal theory, particularly in law and economics, efficient breach is a voluntary breach of contract and payment of damages by a party who concludes that they would incur greater economic loss by performing under the contract.
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it is costly to administer and may deter promisors from engaging in efficientbreach. Professor Steven Shavell, for example, famously argued that specific...
Compensation rule: Some notes on an enforcement model and a theory of efficientbreach". Columbia Law Review. 77 (4): 554–594. doi:10.2307/1121823. JSTOR 1121823...
will be a repudiatory breach, entitling the innocent party to terminate the contract and claim damages for that repudiatory breach. As interpreted by English...
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apply where there is a breached contract. A contractor is contracted to work on a school. He does some work but then quits (breach of contract). He is entitled...
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