Damages - Law Dictionary Search Results
Negligence
amends the (English) Fatal Accidents Acts, 1846-1908, so as to include adopted and illegitimate children among dependants, and damages may be awarded in respect of funeral expenses. This Act has to a great extent revolutionized the application
Common employment
Common employment. The general rule that a master is liable for damage caused by the negligence of his servant has the exception that where the person injured is the fellow-servant
breach
economic theory in which it is more profitable for the breaching party to breach the contract and pay damages than to perform under the contract ma·te·ri·al breach : a breach of contract that is so substantial that
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Dog
aside the rule of the common law, enacts that-- The owner of a dog shall be liable in damages for injury done to any cattle [including, by s. 7, horses, mules, asses, goats and swine] [or poultry,
Penalty
A sum agreed to be paid on breach of an agreement or any stipulation of it. See LIQUIDATED DAMAGES, and NOMINE PEN'. The fact that the parties state expressly in their contract that the sum named is
Referee
see (English) Rating and Valuation Act, 1925 (15 & 16Geo. 5, c. 90), s. 24; also (English) Workmen's Compensation Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 84), and other Acts. Reference committees may be appointed under
Rent
may be regarded as of a two fold nature--first, as some-thing issuing out of the land, as a compensation for the possession during the term; and secondly, as an acknowledgment made by the tenant to the lord
reparation
wrong or injury b : something done or given as amends or satisfaction 2 : the payment of damages ;specif : compensation in money or materials payable by a defeated nation for damages to or expenditures sustained
Warranty
to the main purpose of such a contract, the breach of which gives rise to a claim for damages, but not to a right to reject the goods and treat the contract as repudiated,' and 'as regards
Injunction
nuisance, there must be such an injury as from its nature is not susceptible of being compensated by damages, or as from its continuance or permanent mischief must occasion a constantly recurring grievance which cannot be otherwise
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