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Expectation

n. 1. The act of looking forward; anticipation. 2. A basis on which something is expected to happen; esp., the prospect of receiving wealth, honors, or the like. "[E]xpectation does not in itself amount to intention. An operating surgeon may know very well that his patient will probably die of the operation; yet he does not intend f;ital consequence which he expects. He intends the recovery which he hopes for hit does not expect " .John Salmond, Jurisprudence 379-80 (Glanville. L williamsed 10th ed 1947

consumer-expectation test

See CONSUMERCONTEMPLATION TEST.

damages for lost expectations

See expectation damages.

expectation damages

Compensation awarded for the loss of what a person reasonably anticipated from a transaction that was not completed. - Also termed expectancy damages; loss-of-bargain damages; lost-expectation damages; damages for lost expectations. "[I]f a person contracts to buy a new car, and then changes his mind overnight and cancels the contract, the seller is in principle entitled to recover his anticipated profit on the transaction even though he has not, at the time of the cancellation, done anything whatever in pursuance of the contract. A person who books a room in a hotel would in theory be liable to pay for the hotel's loss of profit even though he cancels in sufficient time for the hotel to be able to relet the room, so long only as the room in fact remains unlet because there are no takers. Damages of this kind are often called damages for lost expectations, or 'expectation damages', or 'loss of bargain damages'." P.S. Atiyah, An Introduction to the Lour of Contract 310 (3d ed. 1981).

expectation interest

See INTEREST (2).

expectation of life

See Life expectancy.

expectation of privacy

A belief in the existence of the right to be free of governments: intrusion in regard to a particular place or thing. ( To suppress a search on privacy_. grounds, a defendant must show the existent( of the expectation and that the expectation was reasonable.

lost-expectation damages