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31Damages, Assessment of — Damages are not assessed in an arbitrary fashion but are subject to various judicial guidelines. The general principle is that the claimant is entitled to full compensation for his or her losses. The purpose of damages in tort is to put the… …
32Civil penalty — A civil penalty or civil fine is a term used to describe when a state entity, government agency, or private party seeks monetary relief against an individual as restitution for wrongdoing by the individual. The wrongdoing is typically defined by… …
33Surrogatum — is a thing put in the place of another or a substitute. [New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. 1997. Version 1.0.03] The Surrogatum Principle pertains to a Canadian income tax principle involving a person who suffers harm caused by another and… …
34claim — n [Old French, from clamer to call, claim, from Latin clamare to shout, proclaim] 1 a: a demand for something (as money) due or believed to be due; specif: a demand for a benefit (as under the workers compensation law) or contractual payment (as… …
35South African contract law — is essentially a modernised version of the Roman Dutch law of contract, [1] which is itself rooted in Roman law. In the broadest definition, a contract is an agreement entered into by two or more parties with the serious intention of creating a… …
36Cooper v Wakley — Court Westminster Assizes Citation(s) (1828) 172 ER 507, (1828) 3 Carrington and Payne 474 Judge(s) sitting Lord Tentenden CJ Keywords Libel, medical negligence Cooper v Wakley (1828) 172 ER 507 is an …
37liquidated — A debt that is for a known number of dollars is liquidated. An unliquidated debt is one where the debtor has liability, but the exact monetary measure of that liability is unknown. Tort claims are usually unliquidated until a trial fixes the… …
38Убытки — (damages) Компенсация в денежной форме за утрату или повреждение, нарушение контракта, гражданское правонарушение или нарушение прав. Слово damages обозначает компенсацию ущерба в отличие от слова damage , обозначающего фактическую утрату или… …
39Motion (legal) — For other uses, see Motion (disambiguation). In law, a motion is a procedural device to bring a limited, contested issue before a court for decision. A motion may be thought of as a request to the judge (or judges) to make a decision about the… …
40Accord and satisfaction — In contract law, accord and satisfaction is the purchase of the release from a debt obligation. The payment is typically less than what is owed and is not paid by the actual performance of the original obligation. The accord is the agreement to… …
