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nominal damages

Matched in: Term nominal damages

from an obligor's delay in performing NOTE: Compensatory damages are recoverable in a case of failure to perform. nominal damages : damages awarded in a small amount (as one dollar) in cases in which a party has been

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Measure of damage

occur in actions of tort. Though unable to prove actual loss, a plaintiff may sometimes be entitled to nominal damages, e.g., breach of an agreement to lend money. In actions of contract, the market-price of the subject-matter at

Libel

KB 431]. As to the discretion of the judge in awarding or withholding costs upon a verdict for nominal damages, see Martin v. Benson, (1927) 1 KB 771. But to be a defence to an indictment, a plea

Penalty

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 'liquidated damages'

Geneva arbitration

the amount of the damage which were ultimately fixed by the arbitrators at 3,229,166l. The five arbitrators were nominated by Great Britain, the United States, Italy, Switzerland, and Brazil. The British arbitrator was Sir Alexander Cockburn, LCJ, … United States. The British Government admitted liability, and the only question was as to the amount of the damage which were ultimately fixed by the arbitrators at 3,229,166l. The five arbitrators were nominated by Great Britain, the

Nomine poena

Nomine poena (under the description of a penalty), an additional rent payable by way of penalty in the event … Holdings Act, 1923 (1 & 14 Geo. 5, c. 9), by s. 29 restricts penal rents to actual damage suffered, excepting, however, from this restriction penal rents for breaking up permanent pasture, grubbing underwoods, felling, etc., trees,

Criminal conversation

s. 33 [replaced by the (English) Judicature Act, 1925, s. 189] gives a husband the right to claim damages from adulterer, either in a petition for dissolution of marriage or for judicial separation,or in a petition limited … Criminal conversation, adultery. See ADULTERY. The action for this (called crim. Con.) was nominally abolished by the (English) Matrimonial Causes Act, 1857 (20 & 21 Vict. c. 85), s. 59; but s.

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