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compensate

compensate -sat·ed -sat·ing : to make an appropriate and usually counterbalancing payment to [ the victims for their injuries] [adequately compensated for her work] com·pen·sa·to·ry [kəm-pen-sə-tōr-ē] adj ...

compensable

compensable : entitling an individual to compensation [a job-related injury] ...

compensated bailment

compensated bailment : bailment for hire at bailment ...

compensating factors

compensating factors factors that show the ability to repay a loan based on less traditional criteria, such as employment, rent, and utility payment history. Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ...

Compensate

To make equal return to to remunerate to recompense to give an equivalent to to requite suitably as to compensate a laborer for his work or a merchant for his losses...

Compensator

One who or that which compensates a name applied to various mechanical devices...

Compense

To compensate...

damage

damage [Old French, from dam injury, harm, from Latin damnum financial loss, fine] 1 : loss or harm resulting from injury to person, property, or reputation 2 pl : the money awarded to a party in a civil suit as reparation for the loss or injury for which another is liable see also additur, cover, mitigate, remittitur compare declaratory judgment at judgment, injunction specific performance at performance NOTE: The trier of fact determines the amount of damages to be awarded to the prevailing party. More than one type of damages may be awarded for a single injury. actual damages : damages deemed to compensate the injured party for losses sustained as a direct result of the injury suffered called also compensatory damages consequential damages : special damages in this entry direct damages : damages for a loss that is an immediate, natural, and foreseeable result of the wrongful act compare special damages in this entry ex·em·pla·ry damages [ig-zem-plə-r...

Compensation

Compensation, according to dictionary it means, 'compensating or being compensated; thing given as recompense;'. In legal sense it may constitute actual loss or expected loss and may extend to physical mental or even emotional suffering, insult or injury or loss, Ghaziabad Development Authority v. Balbir Singh, (2004) 5 SCC 65 (75): AIR 2004 SC 2141.--Making things equivalent, satisfying or making amends, a reward for the apprehension of criminals; also that equivalent in money which is paid to the owners and occupiers of lands taken or injuriously affected for public purposes and under Act of Parliament, e.g., the (English) Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 18), but where the land is acquired compulsorily by a Government Department or any local or Public Authority the compensation is regulated by the (English) Acquisition of Land (Assessment of Compensation) Act, 1919 (9 & 10 Geo. 5, c. 57) and Rules of 1919, and see Housing Act, 1936, ss. 40 and 42 and Schedules, ...

promise

promise : a declaration or manifestation esp. in a contract of an intention to act or refrain from acting in a specified way that gives the party to whom it is made a right to expect its fulfillment aleatory promise : a promise (as to compensate an insured individual for future loss) whose fulfillment is dependent on a fortuitous or uncertain event collateral promise : a promise usually to pay the debt of another that is ancillary to an original promise, is not made for the benefit of the party making it, and must be in writing to be enforceable false promise : a promise that is made with no intention of carrying it out and esp. with intent to deceive or defraud gratuitous promise : a promise that is made without consideration and is usually unenforceable called also naked promise compare nudum pactum NOTE: A gratuitous promise may be enforceable under promissory estoppel. illusory promise : a purported promise that does not actually bind the party making it to a particular p...

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