| 词汇 | nominal-damages |
| 释义 | nominal damages noun[ plural ] ukus LAW a small amount that a court of law orders someone to pay to another person that they have harmed, but not in a way that the court considers serious: When one purchaser backed out, the trader did not lose a sale and he received only nominal damages. Examples of nominal damagesnominal damages These are similar to, but different from, nominaldamages (see below), in which no written sum is specified. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The judge found in their favour and awarded nominaldamages of 10. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. If no loss has been occasioned by the plaintiff, only nominaldamages will be awarded. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Nominaldamages are awarded where a legal wrong has been committed but no consequential loss has been caused. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. We have all the facts before us and it is clear that, even on this view, only nominaldamages could be recovered. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. If conduct be illegal, or, indeed, criminal, it does not necessarily follow that an action in tort for nominaldamages will lie. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. As a result, nominaldamages were awarded in the amount of $1. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. They will not recover merely nominaldamages. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. If we add nominaldamages, we get no further, as we lose track of what is distinctive about the wrong of violating an injunction. However, there is a place for nominal, arbitrary and token damages to recognise, as nominaldamages do in other cases, that damage has been suffered. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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