In  an  action  against  the  vendor  for  not  completing  the  sale
the  purchaser  may  recover  as  damages  the  costs  of  preparing
and  entering  into  the  agreement  of  sale,  and  the  costs  of
investigating  the  title,  including  the  expense  of  comparing
deeds,  searching  for  judgments,  and  journeys  for  these  pur-
poses (m).  These  costs  may  be  given  in  proceedings  under
the  Yendors  and  Purchasers  Act,  1874,  s.  9,  and  may  be
charged  upon  the  vendor's  interest  in  the  property  (x) .  The
liability  to  pay  such  costs  is  sufficient  for  the  assessment  of
the  damages,  though  they  have  not  been  paid  before  action  {>/).
But  the  purchaser  cannot  in  general  recover  as  damages  the
expenses  incurred  in  the  preliminary  negotiation  of  the  eon-
tract  ;  nor  the  cost  of  a  survey  of  the  estate,  or  of  a  deed  of
conveyance  prepared  before  ascertaining  the  title;  nor  the
cost  of  raising  the  purchase  money  before  it  is  necessary  ;
nor  interest  upon  such  purchase  money  ;  nor  the  cost  of  re-
investment (z) ;  nor  loss  in  buying  farming  stock  for  the  land

(q)  Laird  v.  Pim,  7  M.  &  W.  474  ;  615  ;  Compton  v.  Bagleij,  (1892)  1  Ch.
Bee  jiast  London  Vnionv.  Metrop.  Bt/.,  313  ;  61  L.  J.  C.  113.
L.  R.  4  Ex.  309  ;  38  L.  J.  Ex.  226  ;  (i-)  lie  Yielding  S;  Westbrook,  L.  E.
