CA · jury_instructions
CACI No. 4532
Owner’s Damages for Breach of Construction
Contract—Liquidated Damages Under Contract for Delay
[Name of plaintiff] claims that [name of defendant] breached the parties’
contract by failing to [substantially] complete the [project/ describe
construction project, e.g., apartment building] by the completion date
required by the contract. If you find that [name of plaintiff] has proven
this claim, the parties’ contract calls for damages in the amount of
$ for each day between [insert contract completion date] and the
date on which the project was [substantially] completed. Y ou will be
asked to find the date on which the project was [substantially]
completed. I will then calculate the amount of damages.
[If you find that [name of plaintiff] granted or should have granted time
extensions to [name of defendant], you will be asked to find the number of
days of the time extension and add these days to the completion date set
forth in the contract. I will then calculate [name of plaintiff]’s total
damages.]
New December 2010; Revised December 2011
Provenance
- Source
- courts.ca.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-08-20
- Edition
- caci-2025
- Content hash
968eb4594b0dae4029e8f2348ab672290d09ea84a2002031345bce570e0f5b22
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