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Damnify
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DamnifyTo cause damage, injury or loss.
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Cause
1) Civil law. It signifies the delivery of the thing, or the accomplishment of the act which is the object of a convention. 2) It is the consideration or motive for making a contract. 3) Pleading. The reason; the motive. 4) Practice. A contested question before a court of justice; it is a Suit or action.
Damage
Torts. The loss caused by one person to another, or to his property, either with the design of injuring him, with negligence and carelessness, or by inevitable accident.
Injury
Any legal harm, wrong or damage done to a person's body, property, rights or reputation, and that the law recognizes as deserving of redress.
Loss
contracts. The deprivation of something which one had, which was either advantageous, agreeable or commodious.
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Damnification
That which causes a loss or damage to a society, or to one who has indemnified another.
Damnosa haereditas
A name given by Lord Kenyon to that species of property of a bankrupt, which, so far from being valuable, would be a charge to the creditors for example, a term of years, where the rent would exceed the revenue.
Damnum
Latin. That which is taken away: loss: damage; legal hurt or harm. Plural, damna; legal losses. Damnificatus, injured, damaged, damnified. Damnosa, hurtful.
Damnum absque injuria
A loss or damage without injury.
Damnum fatale
Civil law. Damages caused by a fortuitous event, or inevitable accident; damages arising from the act of God.
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Damages, excessive
Such damages as are unreasonably great, and not warranted by law. The damages are excessive in the following cases: 1) When they are gre-ater than is demanded by the writ and declaration. 2) When they are greater than is authorized by the rules and principles of law, as in the case of actions upon contracts, or for torts done to property, the value of which may be ascertained by evidence.
Damages, general
Torts. General damages are such as the law implies to have accrued from the act of a tort-feasor.
Damages, special
Torts. Special damages are such as are in fact sustained, and are not implied by law; these are either superadded to general damages, arising from an act injurious in itself, as when some particular loss arises.
Damages, unliquidated
The unascertained amount which is due to a person by another for an injury to the person, property, or relative rights of the party injured. These damages, being unknown, cannot be set off against the claim which the tort feasor has against the party injured.
Damnification
That which causes a loss or damage to a society, or to one who has indemnified another.
Damnify
Damnosa haereditas
A name given by Lord Kenyon to that species of property of a bankrupt, which, so far from being valuable, would be a charge to the creditors for example, a term of years, where the rent would exceed the revenue.
Damnum
Latin. That which is taken away: loss: damage; legal hurt or harm. Plural, damna; legal losses. Damnificatus, injured, damaged, damnified. Damnosa, hurtful.
Damnum absque injuria
A loss or damage without injury.
Damnum fatale
Civil law. Damages caused by a fortuitous event, or inevitable accident; damages arising from the act of God.
Dane-lage
English law. That system of laws which was maintained in England while the Danes had possession of the country.
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Cause
1) Civil law. It signifies the delivery of the thing, or the accomplishment of the act which is the object of a convention. 2) It is the consideration or motive for making a contract. 3) Pleading. The reason; the motive. 4) Practice. A contested question before a court of justice; it is a Suit or action.
Damage
Torts. The loss caused by one person to another, or to his property, either with the design of injuring him, with negligence and carelessness, or by inevitable accident.
Injury
Any legal harm, wrong or damage done to a person's body, property, rights or reputation, and that the law recognizes as deserving of redress.
Loss
contracts. The deprivation of something which one had, which was either advantageous, agreeable or commodious.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Damnification
That which causes a loss or damage to a society, or to one who has indemnified another.
Damnosa haereditas
A name given by Lord Kenyon to that species of property of a bankrupt, which, so far from being valuable, would be a charge to the creditors for example, a term of years, where the rent would exceed the revenue.
Damnum
Latin. That which is taken away: loss: damage; legal hurt or harm. Plural, damna; legal losses. Damnificatus, injured, damaged, damnified. Damnosa, hurtful.
Damnum absque injuria
A loss or damage without injury.
Damnum fatale
Civil law. Damages caused by a fortuitous event, or inevitable accident; damages arising from the act of God.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Damages, excessive
Such damages as are unreasonably great, and not warranted by law. The damages are excessive in the following cases: 1) When they are gre-ater than is demanded by the writ and declaration. 2) When they are greater than is authorized by the rules and principles of law, as in the case of actions upon contracts, or for torts done to property, the value of which may be ascertained by evidence.
Damages, general
Torts. General damages are such as the law implies to have accrued from the act of a tort-feasor.
Damages, special
Torts. Special damages are such as are in fact sustained, and are not implied by law; these are either superadded to general damages, arising from an act injurious in itself, as when some particular loss arises.
Damages, unliquidated
The unascertained amount which is due to a person by another for an injury to the person, property, or relative rights of the party injured. These damages, being unknown, cannot be set off against the claim which the tort feasor has against the party injured.
Damnification
That which causes a loss or damage to a society, or to one who has indemnified another.
Damnify
Damnosa haereditas
A name given by Lord Kenyon to that species of property of a bankrupt, which, so far from being valuable, would be a charge to the creditors for example, a term of years, where the rent would exceed the revenue.
Damnum
Latin. That which is taken away: loss: damage; legal hurt or harm. Plural, damna; legal losses. Damnificatus, injured, damaged, damnified. Damnosa, hurtful.
Damnum absque injuria
A loss or damage without injury.
Damnum fatale
Civil law. Damages caused by a fortuitous event, or inevitable accident; damages arising from the act of God.
Dane-lage
English law. That system of laws which was maintained in England while the Danes had possession of the country.
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