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Definition of Punitive damages

1. Noun. (law) compensation in excess of actual damages (a form of punishment awarded in cases of malicious or willful misconduct).

Lexicographical Neighbors of Punitive Damages

Literary usage of Punitive 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 (1922)
"The question of punitive damages is eliminated. I am going to cut that out'" The charge of the presiding Judge sufficiently states the case and pleadings. ..."

2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1888)
"... of allowing juries to assess exemplary or punitive damages where injuries have resulted from neglect of duties, the court said: "The statutes of nearly ..."

3. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1914)
""punitive damages" consist of such sum above the actual damages which ... "punitive damages" do not depend on the Injury inflicted or the legal wrong ..."

4. The Law of Railways: Embracing the Law of Corporations, Eminent Domain by Isaac Fletcher Redfield (1888)
"punitive damages, n. (l>). Grounds on which company may expel passenger. 8. Carrier a trespasser if he refuse to deliver baggage in such cases. 4. ..."

5. A Treatise on the Law of Torts, Or the Wrongs which Arise Independently of by Thomas McIntyre Cooley (1907)
"punitive damages. punitive damages, sometimes called exemplary or vindictive, ... "a As a general rule punitive damages may be awarded when the wrong is ..."

6. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1915)
"On punitive damages for wanton failure to transport baggage, see note to Webb v. Atlantic Coast Line R. Co. 9 LRA(XS) 1218. On refusal of conductor to ..."

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