equitable adjustment
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 386 U.S. 503 - Crown Coat Front Co. v. United States · 1967Most cited · 599 citing opinions
the contractor has agreed in effect to convert what otherwise might be claims for breach of contract into claims for equitable adjustment. The changes clause, for example, permits the Government to make changes in contract specifications. Such changes are not breaches of contract. They do give rise to claims for equitable adjustments which the Government agrees to make, if the cost of performance is increased or the time for performance changed.
How often courts cite the cases defining “equitable adjustment”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “equitable adjustment” — 840 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.
All 2 definitions, chronological · 1942–1967
- ORIGINAL
An 'equitable adjustment' of the respondent's additional payment for extra work involved merely the ascertainment of the cost of digging, moving, and placing earth, and the addition to that cost of a reasonable and customary allowance for profit. These were inquiries of fact.
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