damages case
51sounding in damages — When an action is brought, not for the recovery of lands, goods, or sums of money (as is the case in real or mixed actions or the personal action of debt or detinue), but for damages only, as in covenant, trespass, etc., the action is said to be… …
52consequential damages — noun plural : the damages that do not arise as an immediate or natural and probable result of the act of the party but are an incidental result of it and are generally not recoverable because remote except in case of special damages or special… …
53Fisheries Case (United Kingdom v. Norway) — The Fisheries Case (United Kingdom v. Norway) was the culmination of a dispute, originating in 1933, over how large an area of water surrounding Norway was Norwegian waters (that Norway thus had exclusive fishing rights to) and how much was high… …
54Danbury Hatters' Case — ▪ law case formally Loewe v. Lawlor (208 U.S. 274) U.S. Supreme Court case in which unions were held to be subject to the antitrust laws. In 1902 the United Hatters of North America, having failed to organize the firm of D.E. Loewe in… …
55Strode's case — 3 Howell s State Trials 294 is one of the earliest and most important English cases dealing with parliamentary privilege.FactsRichard Strode was a Member of Parliament from Devon. In 1512, he introduced a bill to alleviate the harsh working… …
56trespass on the case — noun an action brought to recover damages from a person whose actions have resulted indirectly in injury or loss a person struck by a log as it was thrown onto a road could maintain trespass against the thrower but one who was hurt by stumbling… …
57Taff Vale case — (1900–01) Successful trial in Britain of a suit brought by the Taff Vale Railway Company against the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants (ASRS). In August 1900 the ASRS struck for higher wages but settled within two weeks when the company… …
58hedonic damages — noun Damages awarded to the plaintiff, in a personal injury case, for the loss of joy of living …
59unliquidated damages — noun An amount owed to a plaintiff in a lawsuit by the defendant that can not be determined by operation of law, such as the value of pain and suffering in a tort case. See Also: liquidated damages …
60measure of damages — The rule of law established by statute or decision for arriving at the amount of the plaintiff s damages which he is entitled to recover in a given case. 22 Am J2d Damg § 45 …
