Pain And Suffering Definition

noun
Compensable results, whether physical or mental, from a wrong either suffered or committed. The loss of the ability to work due to emotional suffering, mental suffering, or physical pain are all appropriate elements of damage.
Webster's New World Law

Used other than as an idiom: see pain,"Ž suffering.

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(law) A species of damages that one may recover for physical or mental pain that results from a wrong done.

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Pain And Suffering Sentence Examples

  • The amount of time that this animal is fully conscious on the floor, partly dismembered, causes the animal pain and suffering.

  • Arguably, Des Pres ' Survivor presents a phantasmagoria of pain and suffering.

  • However, in our opinion, the IAMS vivisection experiments have involved among the highest levels of pain and suffering.

  • They can be rewarded not only the money the thieves took from their accounts but also the funds for lost wages, legal fees and even pain and suffering.

  • According to the UDETC, the medical, lost work, and pain and suffering costs related to underage drinking totaled over $61 billion in 2001.

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