Definition of Extra Work
As used in connection with the construction contract, means work done not required in performance of the contract, i.e. Something done or furnished in addition to or in excess of the requirement of the contract. Work entirely outside and independent of contract—something not required or contemplated in its performance.
Extra work, for which a contractor is entitled to charge additional compensation, depends on construction of the original contract, and generally means only labor and materials not contemplated by or embraced in terms of the original contract. Trinity Builders, Inc. v. Schaff, N.D., 199 N.W.2d 914, 918. Such work is usually defined as being work not foreseen at time of entrance into contract. W. R. Ferguson, Inc. v. William A. Berbusse, Jr., Inc., Del.Super., 216 A.2d 876, 879. Materials and labor not contemplated by the contract, but which are required by changes in the plans and specifications made after the contract had been entered into, are “extra work”. Collins v. Hall, Tex.Civ.App., 161 S.W.2d 311, 314.
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