Actual Damages
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
Real, substanhis actua! and real loss or damage; opposed to “nominal damages,” which is a trifling sum awarded as a matter of course, and nob in compensation, but merely in recognition of the fact that his right has been technically 5 violated; and opposed also to “exemplary” or “punitive” damages, the latter being in excess of the real loss, and intended asa punishment to the wrong-doer, or {from motives of public policy) to discourage a repetition of such acts. ¢