Legal Definition and Related Resources of Damage

Loss, injury or deterioration caused by the negligence , design or accident of one person , to another in respect of the latter’s person or property . Clemmons v Glens Falls Ins. Co., 163 S.E.2d 425, 2 N.C.App. 479. The thing taken away or the thing lost which a party is entitled to have restored to him so that he may be whole again. See Aetna Cas. and Sur. Co. v superior court of Los Angeles Countv, 43 Cal. Rptr. 476, 233 C.A.2d333. while the word damage is used to mean injury, harm or loss to property, the word damages is used to denote the recompense or pecuniary compensation which a plaintiff can recover in an action . While damage is the disadvantage which is suffered by a person as a result of the act or default of another, damages are the pecuniary recompense given by process of law to a person for the actionable wrong that another has done to him.

The loss caused by one person to another, or to his property, either with the design of injuring him, or with negligence and carelessness, or by inevitable accident. See “Damages.”

verb

• abase
• abuse
• blemish
• blight
• break
• break down
• bruise
• cause detriment
• cause injury
• cause mischief
• cheapen
• contaminate
• corrupt
• cripple
• crush
• debase
• deface
• defile
• deform
• degrade
• demolish
• destroy
• devalue
• devastate
• diminish
• disable
• disfigure
• disparage
• disrupt
• disserve
• do disservice to
• do violence to
• harm
• hurt
• impair
• incapacitate
• injure
• lacerate
• lay waste
• maim
• make unsound
• malign
• maltreat
• mangle
• mar
• mutilate
• pervert
• pollute
• prejudice
• ravage
• ruin
• sabotage
• scathe
• spoil
• stain
• taint
• tamper with
• trample on
• traumatize
• vandalize
• violate
• vitiate
• weaken
• wound
• wreck
• wrong Associated Concepts: damage from negligence
• damage to goods
• destruction
• estimated damage
• latent damage
• mitigation of damages
• opportunity to repair
• patent damage
• permanent damage
• recovery for damage
• water damage
• recovery for damage
• water damage

noun

• adversity
• affliction
• aggravation
• casualty
• declination
• decline
• decrement
• depravation
• depreciation
• destruction
• deterioration
• detriment
• dilaceration
• diminution
• disrepair
• exacerbation
• grievance
• hardship
• harm
• hurt
• impairment
• infliction
• injury
• loss
• ruin
• ruination
• spoiling
• vexation
• vitiation
• weakening
• wreck
• wrong
• Associated Concepts: actual loss
• ad damnum clause
• aggravation of damages
• business damage
• conjectural damages
• consequential damages
• contingent damages
• damages actually sustained
• damages by fire
• damages by the elements
• damages in contemplation of party
• damages to land
• damages to person
• damages to property
• damages to realty
• damnum absque injuria
• excessive damages
• exemplary damages
• future damages
• general damages
• incidental damages
• injuria absque damno
• limitation of liability
• liquidated damages
• measure of damages
• minimizing damages
• nominal damages
• personal injury
• property damage
• punitive damages
• remote damages
• special damages
• treble damages
• unliquidated damages
• unusual or extraordinary damageforeign phrases: Nemo damnum facit
• nisi qui id fecit quodfacere jus non habet
• No one is considered as doing damage
• except he who does that which he has no right to do
• No one shall have error or attaint unless he has suffered damage
• Ubicunque est injuria
• ibi damnum sequitur
• Wherever there is a wrong
• there damage follows
• Quod quis ex culpa sua damnum sentit non intelligitur damnum sentire
• He who incurs a damage by his own fault is not held to suffer damage
• Damnum sine injuria esse potest
• There can be damage or injury inflicted without any act of injustice
• Actus legis nemini est damnosus
• An act of the law shall prejudice no one
• there damage follows
• Quod quis ex culpa sua damnum sentit non intelligitur damnum sentire
• He who incurs a damage by his own fault is not held to suffer damage
• Damnum sine injuria esse potest
• There can be damage or injury inflicted without any act of injustice
• Actus legis nemini est damnosus
• An act of the law shall prejudice no one

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Accrue, Average, Bailment, Careless, Casualty, Consequential Damage, Culpa, Damage Feasant, Damages, Deceit, Detriment, , Disrepair, Disturb, Indemnify, Indemnity, Injure, Injury, Insurable, Insurable Interest, Insurance, Jason Clause, Lesion, Liquidated Damages, , Malpractice, Mandatory Injunction, Nominal Damages, Notary, Nuisance, Particular Average, Perils Of The Sea, Policy Of Insurance, Prejudice, Remoteness, Restitution, Sabotage, Slander Of Property, Special Damages, , Towage, Trespass.

Translate Property Damage from English to Spanish

Translation of Property Damage , with examples. More about free online translation into Spanish of Daños en propiedad and other legal terms is available here.

• Daños en propiedad
• Daños a la propiedad
• Daños materiales
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English Spanish Translation of Damage

Daño

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Compensation for damage by police in Law Enforcement

Main Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of compensation for damage by police.

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Legal English Vocabulary: Damage in Spanish

Online translation of the English legal term damage into Spanish: daños (English to Spanish translation) . More about legal dictionary from english to spanish online.

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• Law Enforcement Officer
• Policeman
• Law Enforcement Agency

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• compensation for damage by police in A Dictionary of Law Enforcement (Oxford University Press)
• compensation for damage by police in the Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement
• A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis

Damage in Law Enforcement

Main Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of damage.

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• Law Enforcement Officer
• Policeman
• Law Enforcement Agency

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• damage in A Dictionary of Law Enforcement (Oxford University Press)
• damage in the Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement
• A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis

English Legal System: Damage

In the context of the English law, A Dictionary of Law provides the following legal concept of Damage :

Loss or harm. Not all forms of damage give rise to a right of action; for example, an occupier of land must put up with a reasonable amount of noise from his neighbours (See nuisance), and the law generally gives no compensation to relatives of an accident victim for grief or sorrow, except in the limited statutory form of damages for bereavement (See fatal accidents). Damage for which there is no remedy in law is known as damnum sine injuria. Conversely, a legal wrong may not cause actual damage (injuria sine damno). If the wrong is actionable without proof of damage (such as trespass to land) and no damage has occurred, the claimant is entitled to nominal damages. Most torts, however, are only actionable if damage has been caused (See negligence). In *libel and some forms of *slander, damage to reputation is presumed.