Law360 Canada ( August 4, 2026, 9:40 AM EDT) -- Appeals by developer from orders finding it liable for breach of real estate contracts of purchase and sale. The respondents agreed in 2016 to buy lots in a planned subdivision from the developer. The contracts were later amended by a second addendum which provided that completion would occur 30 days after the City of Abbotsford accepted building permit applications for the properties. The City confirmed in March 2024 that it would accept applications, but the transactions were not completed. The respondents earlier alleged anticipatory breach and sought specific performance, they later abandoned that remedy and sought damages. The developer argued that the contracts were terminated by effluxion of time long before 2024 because a term should have been implied requiring the condition precedent and completion date to occur within a reasonable time, which it said was by December 2018. The respondents maintained that the contracts remained valid and enforceable until the condition precedent was satisfied in 2024. The issues were whether the summary trial judge erred in refusing to imply a reasonable-time term, in interpreting the contracts without considering the factual matrix, in relying on post-contract conduct, and in finding breach on a basis not pleaded....