Contingent damages
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
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."
— Continuing damages. such as accrue from the same injury, or from the repetition of similar acts, between two specified periods of time.
Defined under Damages in Black's Law Dictionary.