Damages Definition

noun
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.
Webster's New World Law

(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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Third-person singular simple present indicative form of damage.

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Damages Sentence Examples

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

  • Here to collect damages?

  • 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.

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

  • Laidlaw afterward repeatedly sued Sage for damages, claiming that Sage had used him as a shield at the moment of the explosion, but his suits were unsuccessful.

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