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In any case, '''[[indemnities]] should not, ''ever'', cover losses arising from [[breach of contract]]'''. Like, ''ever''. Anyone who tells you anything different — and in this old salt’s long and grim experience, many people who should know far better will — is, [[for the time being]], [[without limitation]] and [[notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the foregoing]] contained, a ''moron''. | In any case, '''[[indemnities]] should not, ''ever'', cover losses arising from [[breach of contract]]'''. Like, ''ever''. Anyone who tells you anything different — and in this old salt’s long and grim experience, many people who should know far better will — is, [[for the time being]], [[without limitation]] and [[notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the foregoing]] contained, a ''moron''. | ||
For two reasons: Firstly, if the other guy has breached the contract, [[Q.E.D.]] ''you have a right of action under the {{t|contract}}''. You don’t need an {{t|indemnity}} to give you a right to sue. This is self-evidently true. Secondly, there are limitations on | For two reasons: | ||
Firstly, if the other guy has breached the contract, [[Q.E.D.]] ''you have a right of action under the {{t|contract}}''. You don’t need an {{t|indemnity}} to give you a right to sue. This is self-evidently true. | |||
Secondly, there are important limitations on one’s liability for [[breach of contract]] — questions of [[causation]], [[remoteness of damage]], [[foreseeability]] and proof of [[loss]] — developed over centuries in the Darwinian crucible of the [[common law]] — that are there for very good reasons, and about which the parties are certain to disagree vigorously. An indemnity is meant to be a pre-agreed amount, so is quite unsuitable for a contractual damages claim. There are those — as above, they are morons — who believe that overlaying the basic right to sue for breach with an indemnity will somehow subvert the need for adversarial inquiry into the breach. It won’t. |