Legal Definition and Related Resources of Ad damnum
Meaning of Ad damnum
(Lat. damnae). To the damage. In Pleading. The technical name of that part of the writ which contains a statement of the amount of the plaintiff’s injury. The plaintiff cannot recover greater damages than he has laid in the ad damnum. 2 Greenl. Ev. § 260.
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Ad damnum in the Dictionary of Law consisting of Judicial Definitions and Explanations of Words, Phrases and Maxims
To the loss; “to the damage of plaintiff (so many) dollars”. The clause at the end of a common-law declaration, in which the plaintiff sets out the money amount of the loss he has suffered in consequence of the act he complains of; also, the amount itself so set out. R. Co., 83 Ky. 171, 180 (1885).
Note: This legal definition of Ad damnum in the Dictionary of Law (English and American Jurisprudence) is from 1893.
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