‘X’, the owner of a boat, contracts with ‘Y’ to take a cargo of jute to Mirzapur for sale at that place, starting on a given day. The boat does not start at the appointed time because of some unavoidable cause, whereby the arrival of the cargo at Mirzapur is delayed beyond the time it would have arrived if the boat had sailed under the contract. After that date, the price of jute falls and before the cargo arrives. The measure of the compensation payable to ‘Y’ by ‘X’ is the difference between the price ‘B’ could have obtained for the Mirzapur cargo at the time it was delivered in due course and its market price at the time it actually arrived.

Choose the correct section regarding the above illustration under the Indian Contract Act.