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What are Liquidated Damages?

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This post explains the meaning of the legal term “liquidated damages“. It is part of Dana Shultz’s Canonical Questions on the Law® series of questions and answers about legal issues, concepts and terminology .

Sometimes a contract specifies an amount that a party must pay for breaching that contract. The legal terms for that amount is liquidated damages.

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