Damages

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A Damages is a Common Law concept that involves the monetary compensation awarded to a party for loss or injury caused by another's breach of duty or legal infringement.



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2024

  • (Wikipedia, 2024) ⇒ Wikipedia. (2024). “Damages.” Retrieved April 12, 2024, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damages
    • QUOTE: At common law, damages are a remedy in the form of a monetary award to be paid to a claimant as compensation for loss or injury. To warrant the award, the claimant must show that a breach of duty has caused foreseeable loss. To be recognised at law, the loss must involve damage to property, or mental or physical injury; pure economic loss is rarely recognised for the award of damages. Compensatory damages are further categorized into special damages, which are economic losses such as loss of earnings, property damage and medical expenses, and general damages, which are non-economic damages such as pain and suffering and emotional distress. Rather than being compensatory, at common law damages may instead be nominal, contemptuous or exemplary.