Definition of Nominal damages

1. Noun. (law) a trivial sum (usually $1.00) awarded as recognition that a legal injury was sustained (as for technical violations of a contract).

Category relationships: Jurisprudence, Law
Generic synonyms: Amends, Damages, Indemnification, Indemnity, Redress, Restitution

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nominal Damages

nomia
nomial
nomials
nomic
nomifensine
nomifensine maleate
nomina
nomina dubia
nomina nova
nomina nuda
nomina oblita
nominal
nominal aphasia
nominal clause
nominal clauses
nominal damages (current term)
nominal fee
nominal fees
nominal head
nominal ledger
nominal ledgers
nominal partner
nominal partners
nominal taxon
nominal type system
nominal type systems
nominal value
nominal variable
nominal variables
nominalisation

Literary usage of Nominal damages

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1919)
"... OF GENERAL OB nominal damages. "In a suit for special damages alone, whero the plaintiff is not entitled to recover the special damages sued for, ..."

2. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1918)
"263, holding that, for the death of her husband, the widow is entitled to recover more than nominal damages, although she does not show what part of the ..."

3. The Law of Patents for Useful Inventions by William Callyhan Robinson (1890)
"Role of nominal damages. The rule of damages requires that in all cases where the jury find the issues for the plaintiff on the first four averments of the ..."

4. Handbook on the Law of Torts by William Benjamin Hale, Edwin Ames Jaggard (1896)
"gist—that is, in cases of forbidden conduct—that nominal damages can be recovered;14 for it is only in this class of cases that a legal wrong can be shown ..."

5. A Treatise on the Law of Replevin: As Administered in the Courts of the by Henry Ward Wells, Ebenezer Tracy Wells (1907)
"nominal damages- The rule for estimating damages to the successful party in ... nominal damages at least are awarded without proof of actual injury. ..."

6. A Treatise on the Law of Damages: Embracing an Elementary Exposition of the by Jabez Gridley Sutherland (1893)
"At least nominal damages recoverable. In England it seems that some actual damages must be shown as essential to the maintenance of the action; ..."

7. A General Abridgment and Digest of American Law: With Occasional Notes and by Nathan Dane (1823)
"So nominal damages were given in this case because the debtor was insolvent. ... The jury gave nominal damages, and held well. § 6. ..."

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