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...

Punitive damages, or exemplary damages, are damages assessed in order to punish the defendant for outrageous conduct and/or to reform or deter the defendant...

Liquidated damages, also referred to as liquidated and ascertained damages (LADs), are damages whose amount the parties designate during the formation...

States law, treble damages is a term that indicates that a statute permits a court to triple the amount of the actual/compensatory damages to be awarded to...

Expectation damages are damages recoverable from a breach of contract by the non-breaching party. An award of expectation damages protects the injured...

Damages is an American legal thriller television series created by writing and production trio Daniel Zelman, Glenn Kessler, and Todd A. Kessler. It premiered...

damages in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Damages are the money paid or awarded to a claimant in a civil action. Damages may also refer to: Damages...

legal systems, the term of art 'vindicatory damages' is a taxonomic label to describe a certain type of damages awarded by courts to individuals who have...

Consequential damages, otherwise known as special damages, are damages that can be proven to have occurred because of the failure of one party to meet...

Incidental damages refers to the type of legal damages that are reasonably associated with, or related to, actual damages. In American commercial law,...