nominal damages definition

nominal damages means damages that are designed to
nominal damages is a technical phrase which means that you have negatived anything like real damage, but that you are affirming by your nominal damages that there is an infraction of a legal right which, though it gives you no right to any real damages at all, yet gives you a right to the verdict or judgment because your legal right has been infringed. [...]
nominal damages means damages that are not designed to compensate a plaintiff and are less than five hundred dollars.

More Definitions of nominal damages

nominal damages means a trifling sum awarded when a legal injury is suffered but when there is no substantial loss or injury to be compensated;
nominal damages means damages that are designed to compensate a plaintiff and are less than $500;
nominal damages. ’ means damages less
nominal damages is a technical phase which means that you have negatived anything like real damage, but that you are affirming by your nominal damages that there is an infraction of a legal right which, though gives you no right to any real damages at all, yet gives you a right to the verdict or judgment because your legal right has been infringed." See 1991 C L C 32 (Trading Corporation Of Pakistan Ltd. Vs International Trading And Sales Inc.)

Related to nominal damages

  • Punitive Damages are those damages awarded as a penalty, the amount of which is neither governed nor fixed by statute.

  • Compensatory Damages are those amounts awarded to compensate for the actual damages sustained, and are not awarded as a penalty, nor fixed in amount by statute.

  • Consequential Loss means indirect or consequential loss or damage such as, but not limited to, loss of contract, bargain, expectation, opportunity, profit, production, revenue, anticipated cost reduction or interest payable howsoever caused, arising out of or in connection with this Contract.