ABSTRACT
In the main, the law does not ‘enforce’ a contract, in that it rarely compels an unwilling party to perform what he bargained to do under the contract. Instead, the plaintiff’s remedy is generally an award of damages. Damages under the law of contract are intended to be compensatory rather than punitive; the court will award the claimant a sum sufficient to put him in the financial position he would have been in had the contract been performed.
