nominal damages definition

nominal damages means damages that are designed to
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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. [...]
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nominal damages means damages that are not designed to compensate a plaintiff and are less than five hundred dollars.
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More Definitions of nominal damages

nominal damages. ’ means damages less
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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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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.)
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Related to nominal damages

  • Punitive Damages are those damages awarded as a penalty, the amount of which is neither governed nor fixed by statute.

  • Compensatory Damages are those amounts awarded to compensate for the actual damages sustained, and are not awarded as a penalty, nor fixed in amount by statute.

  • Environmental Damages means all claims, judgments, damages, losses, penalties, fines, liabilities, encumbrances, liens, costs and expenses of investigation and defense of any claim, including, without limitation, attorney’s fees, that are incurred at any time as a result of the existence of Environmental Conditions upon, about or beneath the Project Site or migrating or threatening to migrate to or from the Site, and including, without limitation:

  • Damages means any loss, claim, damage, liability, costs and expenses (including, without limitation, reasonable attorney's fees and disbursements and costs and expenses of expert witnesses and investigation).