Unliquidated Damages - Law Dictionary Search Results
Unliquidated damages
Matched in: Term Unliquidated damages
Damages
Matched in: Term Damages
Damage
excessive damages, exemplary damages, general damages, irreparable damages, pecuniary damages, prospective damages, special damages, speculative damages, substantial damages, unliquidated damages. But the essentials are (a) detriment to one by the wrong-doing of another (b) reparation awarded to the
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liabilities are provable in the administration of an insolvent estate, notwithstanding that they are in the nature of unliquidated damages arising otherwise than by a contract, promise or breach of trust. See further, ADOPTION; LEGITIMATION; BASTARDY; FUNERAL EXPENSES;
Covenant, writ of
a writ for claiming damages for breach of covenant,superseded by the action of covenant where the damages were unliquidated and by the actionof debt where liquidated; both of these forms of action havenow been abolished. See ACTIONS
Mesne profits, action of
he has committed. A claim for rent is therefore liquidated, while a claim for mesne profits is always unliquidated' (Odgerson Pleading). The action should be brought in the name of the plaintiff, who has recovered judgment in … recovery in ejectment. The jury are not bound by the amount of the rent, but may give extra damages. But ground-rent paid by the defendant should be deducted from the damages. A plaintiff may recover in this
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