Search results for: “damage”
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Punitive Damages
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Punitive Damages Meaning of Punitive Damages Such damages as are allowed in excess of the actual loss where a tort is aggravated by evil motives, actual malice , deliberate violence or oppression . Scott […]
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Punitive Damages
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Punitive Damages Meaning of Punitive Damages Such damages as are allowed in excess of the actual loss where a tort is aggravated by evil motives, actual malice , deliberate violence or oppression . Scott […]
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Damage
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Damage Meaning 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. […]
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Damage
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Damage Meaning 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. […]
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Compensatory Damages
Awarded for purpose of making injured party whole; are measured by pecuniary injuries. See Mass. Bonding & Ins. Co. v U.S., 352 U.S. 128, 77 S.Ct. 186, 1 L.Ed.2d 189. Includes loss occurring to property, necessary expenses, insult, pain, mental suffering, injury to the reputation and the […]
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Severance Damage
An award made in condemnation proceedings to an owner to compensate him for decrease in value of the remainder of the property due to the partial taking and is the difference between the value of the remaining property before and after the taking.
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Severance Damage
An award made in condemnation proceedings to an owner to compensate him for decrease in value of the remainder of the property due to the partial taking and is the difference between the value of the remaining property before and after the taking.
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Exemplary Damages
Damages awarded to a plaintiff not merely to compensate him for the loss he has sustained. Damages over and above such compensation and of a preventive or punitive nature Ñ to discourage similar wrongdoing in future by the defendant and all others and to solace offended mental […]
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Criminal Damage
Translate Criminal Damage from English to SpanishTranslation of Criminal Damage, with examples. More about free online translation into Spanish of Daños en propiedad ajena and other legal terms is available here….
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Distress Damage Feasant
English Legal System: Distress Damage FeasantIn the context of the English law, A Dictionary of Law provides the following legal concept of Distress Damage Feasant : A right to detain animals found doing damage on one’s land as security for compensation. This right was abolished in England […]
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Fire Damage
Fire damage in Law EnforcementMain Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of fire damage.ResourcesSee AlsoLaw Enforcement Officer Police Work Law Enforcement Agency Further Reading fire damage in A […]
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Contemptuous Damages
English Legal System: Contemptuous DamagesIn the context of the English law, A Dictionary of Law provides the following legal concept of Contemptuous Damages : A very small sum of *damages awarded when, although the claimant is technically entitled to succeed, the court thinks that the action […]
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Alternative damages
A provision of a contract permitting an injured party to choose among forms of damages for breach, e.g., between actual provable damages and the amount provided in a liquidated damages clause….
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Aggravation of damages
Making damages worse than they might otherwise have been; it refers to divers and dissimilar matters [and] situations of legal significance. If, e.g., a trespasser not only sets foot on another’s land, but levels the house or rapes the daughter, that will be pleaded as matter in […]
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Collision Damage Waiver
Collision Damage Waiver…