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Damnum
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DamnumLatin. That which is taken away: loss: damage; legal hurt or harm. Plural, damna; legal losses. Damnificatus, injured, damaged, damnified. Damnosa, hurtful.
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Loss
contracts. The deprivation of something which one had, which was either advantageous, agreeable or commodious.
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.
Legal
That which is according to law. It is used in opposition to equitable, as the legal estate is, in the trustee, the equitable estate in the cestui que trust.
Plural
A term used in grammar, which signifies more than one.
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Damnification
That which causes a loss or damage to a society, or to one who has indemnified another.
Damnify
To cause damage, injury or loss.
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 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, 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
To cause damage, injury or loss.
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
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.
Danger
In the law of self defense "apparent danger" means such overt, actual demonstration, by conduct and acts, of a design to take life or to do some great personal injury, as makes killing apparently necessary for self-preservation.
Dangers of the sea
Maritim law. This phrase is sometimes put in bills of lading, the master of the ship agreeing to deliver the goods therein mentioned to the consignee, who is named, the dangers of the sea excepted.
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Loss
contracts. The deprivation of something which one had, which was either advantageous, agreeable or commodious.
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.
Legal
That which is according to law. It is used in opposition to equitable, as the legal estate is, in the trustee, the equitable estate in the cestui que trust.
Plural
A term used in grammar, which signifies more than one.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Damnification
That which causes a loss or damage to a society, or to one who has indemnified another.
Damnify
To cause damage, injury or loss.
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 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, 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
To cause damage, injury or loss.
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
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.
Danger
In the law of self defense "apparent danger" means such overt, actual demonstration, by conduct and acts, of a design to take life or to do some great personal injury, as makes killing apparently necessary for self-preservation.
Dangers of the sea
Maritim law. This phrase is sometimes put in bills of lading, the master of the ship agreeing to deliver the goods therein mentioned to the consignee, who is named, the dangers of the sea excepted.
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