Damages meaning

Financial compensation demanded by, or directed by a court to be paid to, a claimant as compensation for a financial loss or injury to person or property.
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Or compensatory damages. Damages intended to compensate for a quantifiable loss.
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Damages resulting indirectly from the act complained of.
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Under the Uniform Commercial Code, expenses reasonably incurred by either party to a transaction in caring for goods after the other party’s breach of the contract.
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A contractually agreed upon amount to be paid in the event of a breach of the contract, in lieu of performance or quantification of actual damages sustained.
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A small or insignificant amount of money awarded by a court or jury to demonstrate that a defendant is at fault, but that the injury sustained was minor or non-existent.
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Damages awarded by a court or jury, typically in addition to actual damages, when the party against whom the award is made is deemed to have behaved egregiously; for example, with particular recklessness or malice.
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Damages claimed for possible future harm. These are considered uncertain or impossible to prove and generally are not awarded.
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A tripling of the actual damages, generally awarded pursuant to a law or statute; intended to deter bad conduct.
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Third-person singular simple present indicative form of damage.
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(law) The money paid or awarded to a claimant (in England), a pursuer (in Scotland) or a plaintiff (in the US) in a civil action.
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Sentence Examples

  • In the end he recovered damages from the high bailiff.

  • In neither case is there ground for damages (Art.

  • It required some fifteen or more years to repair damages from this outbreak, and to confine the stream by new embankments.

  • (At Oxford and Cambridge many fellowships are now awarded on the results of examination; it is sometimes stated, in defence of this system, that young men cannot be expected to carry out research in classics or philosophy.) On the other hand, the defenders of examinations reply that (xiii.) examinations are necessary in order to test the efficiency of schools to which grants of public money are given (this argument has become somewhat out of date owing to the recent substitution of " inspection " for examination as a test of the efficiency of schools; a combination of inspection and examination is also sometimes used); (xiv.) they serve as a necessary incentive to steady and concentrated work 1 (the reply made to this is that the incentive is a bad one, and that with efficient teachers it is unnecessary); (xv.) they show both student and teacher where they have failed (unnecessary for efficient teachers); (xvi.) though possibly harmful to the highest class of men, they are good for the mass (reply: no system which damages the highest class of men is tolerable); (xvii.) they are indispensable as an impartial means of selecting men for the civil service; (xviii.) in a difficult examination like the first class civil service examination the qualities of quickness of comprehension, industry, concentration, power of rapidly passing 1 The Oxford commissioners of 1852 reported that " the examinations have become the chief instruments not only for testing the proficiency of the students but also for stimulating and directing the studies of the place " (Report, p. 61).

  • The owner of an ox which gored a man on the street was only responsible for damages if the ox was known by him to be vicious, even if it caused death.

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