What is the liability of a party in breach of a contract?
Saskatchewan, Canada
The following excerpt is from Dietrich and Dietrich v. Kola Building Movers Ltd. and Rempel, 1984 CanLII 2720 (SK QB):
In this province the liability for breach of an agreement entered into between contracting parties was succinctly stated by Martin, C.J.S., in McCuaig v. Kilbach, 1945 CanLII 234 (SK CA), [1945] 2 W.W.R. 186, at 189: Where a person by his own agreement creates a duty or charge upon himself, he is bound to carry it out notwithstanding that he is prevented from so doing by some accident or contingency which he might have provided against in his agreement.
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