ON THE

MEASURE OF DAMAGES;

OR

AN INQUIRY INTO THE PRINCIPLES WHICH GOVERN
THE AMOUNT OF PECUNIARY COMPENSATION
AWARDED BY COURTS OF JUSTICE.

BY

THEODORE SEDGWICK,

AUTHOR OF "A TREATISE ON STATUTORY AND CONSTITUTIONAL LAW."

Cum pro eo quod interest dubitationes antiquæ in infinitum productæ sint, melius nobis visum
est, hujusmodi prolixitatem, prout possibile est, in angustum coarctare.

Cod. De sent. quæ pro eo quod int. prof. lib. vii, tit. xlvii.

EIGHTH EDITION.

REVISED, REARRANGED, AND ENLARGED

BY

ARTHUR G. SEDGWICK

AND

JOSEPH H. BEALE, JR.

VOL. III.

NEW YORK:

BAKER, VOORHIS & CO., LAW PUBLISHERS,

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LIBRARY OF THE

LELAND STANFORD JR. UNIVERSITY.

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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-one, by

ARTHUR G. SEDGWICK,

in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.

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§898. The general principles modi- § 909. Recovery measured by the net

fied in actions concerning

CHAPTER XXXI.

THE MEASURE OF DAMAGES FOR WRONGFUL INTERFER-

ENCE WITH REAL PROPERTY,

I.-GENERAL PRINCIPLES.

§ 923. Injuries to real property, how |§ 927. Consequential damages.