A Plaintiff Can Measure His or Her Damages Using Either

question 27

Essay

A plaintiff can measure his or her damages using either the , in which the plaintiff asks to be put in the position he or she was in before the misrepresentation, or the , in which the plaintiff asks to be put in the position he or she would have been in had the misrepresented facts been true.

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Definitions:

Serial Search

A search for information in which several stores or slots of information are sequentially examined for match to the target.

Anterograde Amnesia

A condition in which a person is unable to form new memories following the onset of amnesia, although memories from before the onset may remain intact.

Hippocampus

A crucial part of the brain involved in memory formation and spatial navigation.

Receny Effect

The tendency to remember and give greater importance to the most recently presented information over older information.