Where an estate agent sells property without authority and the vendor reasonably resists the purchaser's claim for specific performance, the date for assessment of damages is deferred from the date of breach until the date the vendor accepts the loss of the property. The measure of damages is the cost of purchasing an equivalent replacement property a reasonable time after that date, less the contract price received.
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