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This led to one of the biggest-ever claims for damages in England. The defendant sought to rely on a clause in the contract that purported to limit their liability for breach of contract. In the Suisse Atlantique , [ 4 ] the House of Lords had previously declared that whether or not a fundamental breach extinguishes any protection of a ...
August Wilson (né Frederick August Kittel Jr.; April 27, 1945 – October 2, 2005) was an American playwright. He has been referred to as the "theater's poet of Black America". [ 1 ] He is best known for a series of 10 plays, collectively called The Pittsburgh Cycle (or The Century Cycle ) , which chronicle the experiences and heritage of the ...
"The Pitman’s Pay" is a poem written by Thomas Wilson. It was first printed in a Newcastle magazine called Mitchell's Magazine in 1826. Further sections were printed in 1828 and 1830. It was later republished by George Watson, a Gateshead printer.
Two Trains Running is a 1990 play by American playwright August Wilson, the seventh in his ten-part series The Pittsburgh Cycle. The play takes place in 1968 in the Hill District, an African-American neighborhood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It explores the social and psychological manifestations of changing attitudes toward race from the ...
Damages in tort are awarded generally to place the claimant in the position in which he would have been had the tort not taken place. [16] Damages for breach of contract are generally awarded to place the claimant in the position in which he would have been had the contract not been breached. This can often result in a different measure of damages.
Radio Golf is a play by American playwright, August Wilson, the final installment in his ten-part series, The Century Cycle.It was first performed in 2005 by the Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut and had its Broadway premiere in 2007 at the Cort Theatre.
Theodore Percival Cameron Wilson (April 25, 1888 - March 23, 1918), was an English poet and novelist of the First World War, best known for his poem Magpies in Picardy, [1] published posthumously in 1919 by The Poetry Bookshop. [2] Wilson was born in Paignton, Devon, where his father, Theodore Cameron Wilson, was vicar of Christ Church, Paignton.
John Mackay Wilson (15 August 1804 – 2 October 1835) was a Scottish writer who wrote the eponymous "Wilson's Tales of The Borders (and of Scotland)" He was born in Tweedmouth, on the border between Scotland and England. He gave many talks to Temperance societies. Whilst editor of the Berwick Advertiser, Wilson began publishing local stories.