In such a case, certain law ( including Article 2 of the Uniform Commercial Code in the United States ) permits the aggrieved seller to recover the lost profit that the seller would have made had the buyer not breached ( plus, under some circumstances, incidental damages ).
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Compared to the original cost given by the engineers in 1826 of about $ 8 million, removing things not in the estimate such as land purchases, engineering expenses, incidental damages, salaries, and fencing provision, the cost overrun was about 19 %, which can be justified by the inflation rate of the period.
