Mitigation Of Damages
(n) Mitigation of Damages is the responsibility of the sufferer of a crime, misdoing or accident to take steps to stop or reduce further or consequential loss which may occur to them as a result of the crime, ...
Mitigation of Damages:
A person who sues another for damages has a responsibility to minimize those damages, as far as reasonable.
Mitigation of Damages or Doctrine of Avoidable Consequences: Imposes a duty on victims of a tort to take reasonable steps to minimize their damages after an injury has been inflicted.
mitigation of damages
n. the requirement that someone injured by another's negligence or breach of contract must take reasonable steps to reduce the damages, injury or cost, and to prevent them from getting worse.
Mitigation of damages
Definition
1 : a doctrine in tort and contract law: a person injured by another is required to mitigate his or her losses resulting from the injury < ...
Expanded Legal Definition of Mitigating CircumstancesMitigation of Damages A person who sues another for damages has an obligation to minimize - mitigate - those damages, as far as reasonable.
Doctrine of avoidable consequences or mitigation of damages: Imposes a duty on victims of a tort to take reasonable steps to minimize their damages after an injury has been inflicted.
the plaintiff married her; that he lived with her after he knew of the criminal intimacy with the defendant; that he had connived at her intimacy with other men;, or that the plaintiff had been false to his wife, only go in mitigation of damages.
If a term had been stipulated in favor of a creditor, it must be expired; the offer should be made at the time agreed upon for the performance of the contract if made afterwards, it only goes in mitigation of damages, ...
 See also: Damages, Mitigation, Action, Crime, Defendant
  
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