nominal damages definition
nominal damages means damages that are designed to
nominal damages is a technical phrase which means that you have negatived anything like real damage, but that you are affirming by your nominal damages that there is an infraction of a legal right which, though it gives you no right to any real damages at all, yet gives you a right to the verdict or judgment because your legal right has been infringed. [...]
nominal damages means damages that are not designed to compensate a plaintiff and are less than five hundred dollars.
More Definitions of nominal damages
nominal damages means damages that are designed to compensate a plaintiff and are less than $500;
nominal damages is a technical phase which means that you have negatived anything like real damage, but that you are affirming by your nominal damages that there is an infraction of a legal right which, though gives you no right to any real damages at all, yet gives you a right to the verdict or judgment because your legal right has been infringed." See 1991 C L C 32 (Trading Corporation Of Pakistan Ltd. Vs International Trading And Sales Inc.)
nominal damages means a trifling sum awarded when a legal injury is suffered but when there is no substantial loss or injury to be compensated;
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