There are five different ways that we can measure legal (monetary) damages: 1) compensatory, 2) consequential, 3) nominal, 4) punitive, and 5) liquidated. Each of these attempts to estimate some aspect of injury caused by the breach of contract. While compensatory and consequential damages complement each other and are sometimes collectively called actual damages. Actual damages mutually exclude the award of nominal or liquidated damages. Nominal damages like liquidated damages preclude any other type of damage award. Finally, punitive damages will not be awarded for breach of contract because it would be contrary to public policy. How would awarding punitive damages for breach of contract harm society?

Punitive damages are those harms that surpass basic pay and are granted with an expectation to rebuff the respondent. The essential target of reformatory harm isn't to remunerate the oppressed party however to rebuff the gathering that hosts irritated or wronged the bothered get-together.

Granting punitive damages for penetrate of agreement can conceivably hurt the general public. This is on the grounds that numerous penetrates of agreement can be because of conduct of the culpable party which is neither intentional nor careless. Reformatory harms should just be restricted and material to tort cases and should just be utilized to rebuff those bad behaviors that are conscious and foolish. Anyway utilizing correctional activities to rebuff somebody who has penetrated an agreement because of specific occasions or circumstances that were not in his control will be crooked and uncalled for.

Punitive damages are semi criminal in nature and ordering and clubbing all break of agreement (despite the fact that not purposeful or not having components of dishonesty, malevolence or wanton) as semi criminal in nature will be in opposition to open arrangement and will hurt the general public.