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Damnum absque injuria






Damnum absque injuria

A loss or damage without injury.

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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.

Without
Pleading. This word is adopted in formal traverses, and is a negative signifying "and not for;" accordingly the language of the elder entries sometimes is, It et nemy pur tiel cause.

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.



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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
Latin. That which is taken away: loss: damage; legal hurt or harm. Plural, damna; legal losses. Damnificatus, injured, damaged, damnified. Damnosa, hurtful.

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, 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
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

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.

Dare
Latin. To give; to transfer.

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