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History

In Robinson v Harman (18148), B Parke of the Exchequer Court established that under the rule of common law, as per Hopkins v. Grazebrook, the plaintiff is entitled to recover damages, to what means money can, as if the contract had been performed. B Alderson agreed, assessing that according to the general rule of law if a contract is made and an individual breaches that contract, the whole damage sustained to the innocent party must be paid. Thus, expectation damages were established under one of the guiding common law principles in awarding damages restitutio in integrum (restoration to original condition). After this case expectation damages as a form of compensatory damages became the norm in apportioning damages in breach of contract cases.