Actual Damages: Actual damages are real damages to compensate for loss or injuries that have actually occurred.
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Money awarded to compensate for actual losses (also called "compensatory damages"). The amount awarded is based on the proven harm, loss, or injury suffered by the plaintiff.
Actual Damages at Legal Glossary What is it? See damages.
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Actual damages are rarely awarded in family law cases, although some states now allow a parent to recover from his child's other parent the actual damages suffered if thwarted when trying to exercise visitation rights.
If the act is unintentional (, i.e., not willful) there may in some cases be no liability, while if intentional (willful) the actor may be responsible for not only the plaintiff’s actual damages but also for punitive damages to punish him or ...
Also called "actual damages."general damages Damages intended to cover injuries for which an exact dollar amount cannot be calculated.
The amount of liquidated damages must represent a reasonable estimate of the actual damages a breach would cause.
COMPENSATORY DAMAGES A payment for actual damages.
COMPLAINT The original or initial pleading by which an action is commenced.
CONSIDERATION The inducement to a contract; the reason or material cause of the contract.
In insurance law, an insurer may pay off a claim and then take the subrogated rights to chase after a person who may also, in law, be liable for the tort or contractual damages.
Punitive Damages
Damages awarded to punish a party who committed a wrongful act rather than to compensate an injured party for actual damages; exemplary damages.
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Term: Punitive Damages
Definition: Damages awarded to punish a party who committed a wrongful act rather than to compensate an injured party for actual damages; exemplary damages.
granted, or by any patent which may hereafter be granted, a verdict shall be rendered for the plaintiff in such action, it shall be in the power of the court to render judgment for any sum above the amount found by such verdict as the actual damages ...
order to punish the defendant for malicious, wanton, willful, reckless, oppressive, or fraudulent conduct. Punitive damages are imposed to compensate the Plaintiff for mental anguish, shame, degradation, or other aggravations beyond actual damages.
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