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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).
Generic synonyms: Amends, Damages, Indemnification, Indemnity, Redress, Restitution
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nominal Damages
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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