Aggravation

Any circumstance attending the commission of a crime or tort which increases its guilf or enormity or adds to its injurious consequences, but which is above and beyond the essential constituents of the crime or tort itself. Matter of aggravation, correctly under- “stood, does not consist in acts of the same tind and ceseription as those constituting the pist of the action, but in something done by the defendant, on the occasion of committing the trespass, which is, to some extent, of a different legal character from the principal act complained of.

19 Vt. 107.

In pleading. The introduction of matter into the declaration which tends to increase the amount of damages, but does not affect the right of action itself.

Steph. Pl. 257; 12 Mod. 597.