Actnal damages

real, substantial and just damages, or the amount awarded to a complainant in compensation for hls actual and real loss or injury, as opposed on the one hand to "nominal" damages, and on the other to "exemplary" or "punitive" damages. Ross v. Leggett, 61 Mich. 445, 28 N. W. 695, 1 Am. St Rep. 608; Lord v. Wood, 120 Iowa, 303, 94 N. W. 842; Western Union Tel. Co. v. Lawson, 66 Kan. 660, 72 Pac. 283; Field v. Munster, 11 Tex. Civ. App. 341, 32 S. W. 417; Oliver v. Columbia, etc., R. Co.., 65 S. C. 1, 48 S. EL 307; Gatzow v. Buening, 106 Wis. 1, 81 N. W. 1003, 49 In R. A. 475, 80 Am. St. Rep 1; Osborn v. Leach, 135 N. C. 628 47 S. E. 811, 66 L. R. A. 648; Gen. St. Minn. 1894, § 5418.

— Affirmative damages. In admiralty law, affirmative damages are damages which a respondent in a libel for injuries to a vessel may recover, which may be in excess of any amount which the libellant would be entitled to claim. Ebert v. The Reuben Doud (D. Ct) 3 Fed. 520

— Civil damages. Those awarded against a liquor-seller to the relative, guardian, or employer of the person to whom the sales were made, on a showing that the plaintiff has been thereby injured in person, property, or means of support. Headington v. Smith, 113 Iowa, 107, 84 N. W. 982.

— Contingent damages. Where a demurrer has been filed to one or more counts in a declaration, and its consideration is postponed, and meanwhile other counts in the same declaration, not demurred to, are taken as issues, and tried, and damages awarded upon them, such damages are calied "contingent damages."

Defined under Damages in Black's Law Dictionary.