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	[[Exemplary damages\|~~“Exemplary”~~]], or [[punitive damages\|“punitive” damages]] — ''punishing'' a defendant for the contumelious or high-handed ''way'' it wronged a plaintiff — isn’t ~~“contumelious”~~ a great word? — goes ''beyond'' the philosophical aims of a [[contractual remedy]] — to give a fellow what he bargained for — and so are not available as [[damages]] for [[breach of contract]]. As Lord Atkinson put it, in the great case of {{casenote\|Addis\|Gramophone}}:		“[[Exemplary damages\|Exemplary]]”, or [[punitive damages\|“punitive” damages]] — ''punishing'' a [[defendant]] for the contumelious or high-handed ''way'' it wronged a [[plaintiff]] — isn’t “''contumelious''” a great word? — goes ''beyond'' the philosophical aims of a [[contractual remedy]] — to give a fellow what he bargained for — and so are not available as [[damages]] for [[breach of contract]]. As Lord Atkinson put it, in the great case of {{casenote\|Addis\|Gramophone}}:
	:“In many other cases of [[breach of contract]] there may be circumstances of malice, [[fraud]], defamation, or violence, which would sustain an action of [[tort]] as an alternative remedy to an action for [[breach of contract]]. If one should select the former mode of redress, he may, no doubt, recover [[exemplary damages]], or what is sometimes styled vindictive damages; but if he should choose to seek redress in the form of an action for [[breach of contract]], he lets in all the consequences of that form of action: {{citer\|Thorpe\|Thorpe\|1832\|3B.&Ad.\|580}}. One of these consequences is, I think, this: that he is to be paid adequate compensation in money for the loss of that which he would have received had his contract been kept, and no more.”		:“In many other cases of [[breach of contract]] there may be circumstances of malice, [[fraud]], defamation, or violence, which would sustain an action of [[tort]] as an alternative remedy to an action for [[breach of contract]]. If one should select the former mode of redress, he may, no doubt, recover [[exemplary damages]], or what is sometimes styled vindictive damages; but if he should choose to seek redress in the form of an action for [[breach of contract]], he lets in all the consequences of that form of action: {{citer\|Thorpe\|Thorpe\|1832\|3B.&Ad.\|580}}. One of these consequences is, I think, this: that he is to be paid adequate compensation in money for the loss of that which he would have received had his contract been kept, and no more.”