Damnum

Dampnum.

Lat In pleading and old English law. Damage; loss. Ad damnum (q. v.); to the damage. Damnumfacientes; doing damage.

Beg, Jud, 27.

Pro damno facto; for damage done. Bract, fol.

156.

Dicere poterit captor quod juste cepit averia sua, quia ilta invenit in damno suo; the taker may say that he justly took his beasts, because he found them in his damage, (i. e« doing him damage.) Id. fol.

158.

The* word damnum in this last application is understood in some of the old dictionaries in the sense of an enclosure; but the corresponding phrase of Britton, en aon damage, conclusively shows the true meaning.

See Damage.

JEssein damno; to be in loss; to be a loser. £ra/cL foL 23 b.