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Definition of Exemplary damages
1. Noun. (law) compensation in excess of actual damages (a form of punishment awarded in cases of malicious or willful misconduct).
Category relationships: Jurisprudence, Law
Generic synonyms: Amends, Damages, Indemnification, Indemnity, Redress, Restitution
Specialized synonyms: Double Damages, Treble Damages
Lexicographical Neighbors of Exemplary Damages
Literary usage of Exemplary damages
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1886)
"In addition, according to the settled law of this court, he might show himself,
by proof of the circumstances, to be entitled to exemplary damages ..."
2. The Law of Railways: Embracing Corporations, Eminent Domain, Contracts by Isaac Fletcher Redfield (1869)
"... held responsible for all its consequences, and there seems quite as much
necessity for holding the company liable to exemplary damages as their agents. ..."
3. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1903)
"... would be Justified In awarding vindictive or exemplary damages. ... was,
without doubt, to the effect that exemplary damages could be awarded for gross ..."
4. Handbook on the Law of Damages by William Benjamin Hale (1896)
"The authorities are in great conflict as to whether exemplary damages can ever
... (c) In most jurisdictions, exemplary damages may ba recovered in cases of ..."
5. A Treatise on the Law of Damages: Embracing an Elementary Exposition of the by Jabez Gridley Sutherland (1893)
"exemplary damages. 931. For what losses carrier responsible. 932. ... Same subject;
exemplary damages. 938. Removal of passenger at wrong place. 939. ..."
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