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treble damages

treble damages see damage

property damage liability

property damage liability Insurance that protects you, and pays on your behalf, for automobile-related damage that you cause to another

Special damage

Special damage, such a loss as the law will not presume to be the consequence of the defendant's act, but

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Limitation of damages

Limitation of damages. See ACTIO PERSONALIS; LAW REFORM; LIMITED LIABILITY.

overtime compensation

overtime compensation A higher rate of pay (usually 1.5 or 2 times the regular hourly rate) an employer is obligated to pay employees who work more than a certain number of hours in a day or...

civil damage act

civil damage act : dram shop act

Workmen's Compensation Act

(Workmen's Compensation Act, 1925 [15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 84), s. 1 (1)] The compensation is not damages for negligence or any other tort at common law or by statute (see COMPBELL (LORD) ACTS (Fatal Accidents

Double or treble damages

Double or treble damages are given in some cases, by particular statutes; see, e.g., 2 Wm. & M. sess. 1, c. 5,

longshore and harbor workers' compensation act

longshore and harbor workers' compensation act The federal act designed to provide workers' compensation benefits to employees, other than seamen, who work in maritime employment upon the navigable waters of the United States. (33 U.S.C.A. Sec....

Wrong, injury and damage

Wrong, injury and damage, the word 'wrong' in ordinary legal language means and signifies 'privation of right'. An act is wrongful if

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