Ad Damnum
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Ad dampnum. L. Lat. To the damage. In pleading. The emphatic words of the clause at the end of the declaration, when in Latin, in which a certain amount of damages was claimed. Ad damnum ipsius A. —, et inde, &c.
Towns. Pl. 418.
This is literally translated in the modern forms, "to the damage of the said A. of —, and therefore, &c.;" and hence the clause itself is technically termed the ad damnum.
1 Chitt. Pl. 419.
See Damnum. A similar clause in libels in admiralty is so termed.
Story J., 3 Mason's R. 503, 504.