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Specific performance at the crossroads

It is a fundamental principle that the expectation interest is protected for breach of contract. In protecting this interest, the main choice the law faces is between ordering specific performance and awarding damages. The former orders the defendant to carry out what he promised, whereas the latter gives the plaintiff a monetary substitute for performance. Traditionally, the expectation interest has been primarily protected by awarding damages, and specific performance has been a very secondary remedy.