Damages (disambiguation)
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Damages
Damages
In law, damages is an award, typically of money, to be paid to a person as compensation for loss or injury; grammatically, it is a singular noun, not plural.- Compensatory damages :...

is the money paid or awarded to a claimant in a civil action.

Damages may also refer to:
  • Damages (Jewish law)
    Damages (Jewish law)
    In Jewish law, damages covers a range of jurisprudential topics that roughly correspond in secular law to torts. Jewish law on damages is grounded partly on the Written Torah, the Hebrew Bible, and partly on the Oral Torah, centered primarily in the Mishnaic Order of Nezikin...

    , a range of jurisprudential topics that roughly correspond in secular law to torts
  • Damages (TV series)
    Damages (TV series)
    Damages is an American television drama series created by the writing and production trio of Daniel Zelman and brothers Glenn and Todd A. Kessler . It is broadcast in the United States on the DirecTV channel Audience Network after originally airing on FX and is produced by the creators' own...

    , a legal drama or Damages, the fourth Order of the Mishna

See also

  • Damage (disambiguation)
  • Consequential damages
    Consequential damages
    Consequential damages, otherwise known as special damages, is one of the damages, the other being direct damages, that may be awarded to plaintiff in a civil action who claims that terms of an agreement were not honored....

    , one kind of damages that may be awarded to plaintiff in a civil action
  • Expectation damages, a form of damages available as a recourse to a breached contract
  • Liquidated damages
    Liquidated damages
    Liquidated damages are damages whose amount the parties designate during the formation of a contract for the injured party to collect as compensation upon a specific breach ....

    , damages which are liquidated/assessed and fixed at the date of the contract
  • Monetary damages, money/compensation given to an injured party by a liable party
  • Punitive damages
    Punitive damages
    Punitive damages or exemplary damages are damages intended to reform or deter the defendant and others from engaging in conduct similar to that which formed the basis of the lawsuit...

    , damages awarded to mark the court's disapproval of a particular conduct
  • Treble damages
    Treble damages
    Treble damages, in law, is a term that indicates that a statute permits a court to triple the amount of the actual/compensatory damages to be awarded to a prevailing plaintiff, generally in order to punish the losing party for willful conduct. Treble damages are a multiple of, and not an addition...

  • Speculative damages
    Speculative damages
    Speculative damages are damages claimed by a plaintiff for losses that may occur in the future, but are highly improbable. They can not be used as a basis for recovery in tort or contract cases...

    , claims made by a plaintiff for losses that may occur in the future
  • Statutory damages
    Statutory damages
    Statutory damages are a damage award in civil law, in which the amount awarded is stipulated within the statute rather than being calculated based on the degree of harm to the plaintiff. Lawmakers will provide for statutory damages for acts in which it is difficult to determine a precise value of...

    , damages recoverable pursuant to statute
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