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Consequential damage
(gcide) | Consequential \Con`se*quen"tial\, a.
1. Following as a consequence, result, or logical inference;
consequent.
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All that is revealed in Scripture has a
consequential necessity of being believed . . .
because it is of divine authority. --Locke.
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These kind of arguments . . . are highly
consequential and concludent to my purpose. --Sir M.
Hale.
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2. Assuming or exhibiting an air of consequence; pretending
to importance; pompous; self-important; as, a
consequential man. See Consequence, n., 4.
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His stately and consequential pace. --Sir W.
Scott.
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Consequential damage (Law)
(a) Damage so remote as not to be actionable
(b) Damage which although remote is actionable.
(c) Actionable damage, but not following as an immediate
result of an act.
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Consequential damage
(gcide) | Damage \Dam"age\ (d[a^]m"[asl]j; 48), n. [OF. damage, domage, F.
dommage, fr. assumed LL. damnaticum, from L. damnum damage.
See Damn.]
1. Injury or harm to person, property, or reputation; an
inflicted loss of value; detriment; hurt; mischief.
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He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool
cutteth off the feet and drinketh damage. --Prov.
xxvi. 6.
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Great errors and absurdities many commit for want of
a friend to tell them of them, to the great damage
both of their fame and fortune. --Bacon.
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2. pl. (Law) The estimated reparation in money for detriment
or injury sustained; a compensation, recompense, or
satisfaction to one party, for a wrong or injury actually
done to him by another.
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Note: In common-law actions, the jury are the proper judges
of damages.
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Consequential damage. See under Consequential.
Exemplary damages (Law), damages imposed by way of example
to others. Similar in purpose to vindictive damages,
below.
Nominal damages (Law), those given for a violation of a
right where no actual loss has accrued.
vindictive damages or punitive damages, those given
specially for the punishment of the wrongdoer.
Syn: Mischief; injury; harm; hurt; detriment; evil; ill. See
Mischief.
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CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES
(bouvier) | CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, torts. Those damages or those losses which arise not
from the immediate act of the party, but in consequence of such act; as if a
man throw a log into the public streets, and another fall upon it and become
injured by the fall or if a man should erect a dam over his own ground, and
by that means overflow his neighbor's, to his injury.
2. The form of action to be instituted for consequential damages caused
without force, is by action on the case. 3 East, 602; 1 Stran. 636; 5 T. R.
649; 5 Vin. Ab. 403; 1 Chit. Pl. 127 Kames on Eq. 71; 3 Bouv. Inst. n. 3484,
et seq. Vide Immediate.
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