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Punitive damages
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Punitive damagesDamages awarded in addition to normal damages for bad faith or excessively improper acts of the defendant in contract or tort or even during a court action.
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Damages
A cash compensation ordered by a court to offset losses or suffering caused by another's fault or negligence. Damages are a typical request made of a court when persons sue for breach of contract or tort.
Faith
Probity; good faith is the very soul of contracts. Faith also signifies confidence, belief; as, full faith and credit ought to be given to the acts of a magistrate while acting within his jurisdiction.
Defendant
A party who is sued in a personal action.
Contract
A negotiated oral or written agreement setting forth the terms for an exchange of value between parties (which may be individuals or companies) and under which each party promises to perform an obligation. Certain terms, such as the obligations to be performed and the terms for setting price or compensation must be mutually understood, known in legal lingo as a "meeting of the minds," and promised to by the parties to form a legal contract.
Tort
An injury; a wrong; hence the expression an executor de son tort, of his own wrong.
Court
A body in government to which the administration of justice is delegated.
Action
1) French commercial. Stock in a company, shares in a corporation. 2)Civil law. An action instituted to avoid a sale onaccount of some Vice or defect in the thing sold which readers it either absolutely useless, or its use so inconvenient and, imperfect, that it must be, supposed the buyer would not have purchased it, had he known of the vice.
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Punishment
Criminal law. Some pain or penalty warranted by law, inflicted on a person, for the commission of a crime or misdemeanor, or for the omission of the performance of an act required by law, by the judgment and command of some lawful court.
Punishment of death
The deliberate killing, according to the forms of law,, of a person who has been lawfully convicted of certain crimes
Punitive segregation (prison)
Usually a small section within the segregation unit of a higher security prison for prisoners who are confined as a sanction for violating prison rules.
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Puisne
Since born; the younger; as, a puisne judge, is an associate judge
Pump-and-dump
Manipulating stock prices by artificially creating demand through rumor, high pressure sales tactics, or multiple large orders. The price is "pumped" upwards and then when other investors join the trend, the original investors "dump" the stock in a rapid sell-off.
Punctuation
Construction. The act or method of placing points . in a written or printed instrument.
Punishment
Criminal law. Some pain or penalty warranted by law, inflicted on a person, for the commission of a crime or misdemeanor, or for the omission of the performance of an act required by law, by the judgment and command of some lawful court.
Punishment of death
The deliberate killing, according to the forms of law,, of a person who has been lawfully convicted of certain crimes
Punitive damages
Pupil
Civil law. One who is in his or her minority.
Pupillarity
Civil law. That age of a person's life which included infancy and puerility.
Pur
A corruption of the French word par, by or for. It is frequently used in old French law phrases; as, pur autre vie. It is also used in the composition of words, as purparty, purlieu, purview.
Pur autre vie
Tenures. These old French words signify, for another's life. An estate is said to be pur autre vie, when a lease is made of lands or tenements to a man, to hold for the life of another person
Purchase
In its most enlarged and technical sense, purchase signifies the lawful acquisition of real estate by any means whatever, except descent. It is thus defined by Littleton, section 12. "Purchase is called the possession of lands or tenements that a man hath by his own deed or agreement, unto which possession he cometh, not by title of descent from any of his ancestors or cousins, but by his own deed."
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Damages
A cash compensation ordered by a court to offset losses or suffering caused by another's fault or negligence. Damages are a typical request made of a court when persons sue for breach of contract or tort.
Faith
Probity; good faith is the very soul of contracts. Faith also signifies confidence, belief; as, full faith and credit ought to be given to the acts of a magistrate while acting within his jurisdiction.
Defendant
A party who is sued in a personal action.
Contract
A negotiated oral or written agreement setting forth the terms for an exchange of value between parties (which may be individuals or companies) and under which each party promises to perform an obligation. Certain terms, such as the obligations to be performed and the terms for setting price or compensation must be mutually understood, known in legal lingo as a "meeting of the minds," and promised to by the parties to form a legal contract.
Tort
An injury; a wrong; hence the expression an executor de son tort, of his own wrong.
Court
A body in government to which the administration of justice is delegated.
Action
1) French commercial. Stock in a company, shares in a corporation. 2)Civil law. An action instituted to avoid a sale onaccount of some Vice or defect in the thing sold which readers it either absolutely useless, or its use so inconvenient and, imperfect, that it must be, supposed the buyer would not have purchased it, had he known of the vice.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Punishment
Criminal law. Some pain or penalty warranted by law, inflicted on a person, for the commission of a crime or misdemeanor, or for the omission of the performance of an act required by law, by the judgment and command of some lawful court.
Punishment of death
The deliberate killing, according to the forms of law,, of a person who has been lawfully convicted of certain crimes
Punitive segregation (prison)
Usually a small section within the segregation unit of a higher security prison for prisoners who are confined as a sanction for violating prison rules.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Puisne
Since born; the younger; as, a puisne judge, is an associate judge
Pump-and-dump
Manipulating stock prices by artificially creating demand through rumor, high pressure sales tactics, or multiple large orders. The price is "pumped" upwards and then when other investors join the trend, the original investors "dump" the stock in a rapid sell-off.
Punctuation
Construction. The act or method of placing points . in a written or printed instrument.
Punishment
Criminal law. Some pain or penalty warranted by law, inflicted on a person, for the commission of a crime or misdemeanor, or for the omission of the performance of an act required by law, by the judgment and command of some lawful court.
Punishment of death
The deliberate killing, according to the forms of law,, of a person who has been lawfully convicted of certain crimes
Punitive damages
Pupil
Civil law. One who is in his or her minority.
Pupillarity
Civil law. That age of a person's life which included infancy and puerility.
Pur
A corruption of the French word par, by or for. It is frequently used in old French law phrases; as, pur autre vie. It is also used in the composition of words, as purparty, purlieu, purview.
Pur autre vie
Tenures. These old French words signify, for another's life. An estate is said to be pur autre vie, when a lease is made of lands or tenements to a man, to hold for the life of another person
Purchase
In its most enlarged and technical sense, purchase signifies the lawful acquisition of real estate by any means whatever, except descent. It is thus defined by Littleton, section 12. "Purchase is called the possession of lands or tenements that a man hath by his own deed or agreement, unto which possession he cometh, not by title of descent from any of his ancestors or cousins, but by his own deed."
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