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1The Contract Act, 1872

( ACT NO. IX OF 1872 )

Chapter VI

OF THE CONSEQUENCES OF BREACH OF CONTRACT

Compensation for loss or damage caused by breach of contract
73. When a contract has been broken, the party who suffers by such breach is entitled to receive, from the party who has broken the contract, compensation for any loss or damagecaused to him thereby, which naturally arose in the usual course of things from such breach, or which the parties knew, when they made the contract, to be likely to result from the breach of it.
 
 
 
 
Such compensation is not to be given for any remote and indirect loss or damage sustained by reason of the breach.

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    Throughout this Act, except otherwise provided, the words "Bangladesh", "Taka" and "Penal Code" were substituted, for the words "Pakistan" or "East Pakistan", "Rupees" or "Rs." and "Pakistan Penal Code" respectively by section 3 and 2nd Schedule of the Bangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973 (Act No. VIII of 1973).
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