Contingent Damages
Defined in 5 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Black's (1891)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
Those given where the issues upon counts to which no demurrer has been filed are tried before demurrer to one or more counts in the same declaration has been decided. 1 Strange, 431.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Those given where the issues upon counts to which no demurrer has been filed are tried, before demurrer to one or more counts in the same declaration has been decided. 1 Stra. 431. Inaccurately used to describe consequential damages, g. v.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
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.
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
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 called “contingent damages.”