Consequential Damages Damage or injury that does not directly and immediately result from a wrongful act, but is a consequence of the initial act.
CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES - Those damages or those losses which arise not from the immediate act of the party, but in consequence of such act; such as if a man throws a log into the public streets and another falls upon it and become injured by the fall; ...
consequential damages
n. damages claimed and/or awarded in a lawsuit which were caused as a direct foreseeable result of wrongdoing.
Consequential damages, a type of compensatory damages, may be awarded where the loss suffered by a plaintiff is not caused directly or immediately by the wrongful conduct of a defendant, but instead results from the defendant's act.
3. - §1. Actionable words are of two descriptions; first, those actionable in themselves, without proof of special damages and, secondly, those actionable only in respect of some actual consequential damages.
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