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Special Damages

Defined in 4 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Bouvier (1839)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The damages recoverable for the actual injury incurred through the peculiar circumstance of the individual case, above and beyond those presumed by law from the general nature of the wrong. See "Damages."

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

Those which are the natural but not the necessary consequence of the act complained of. See 6 Wall. (U. S.) 578, 18 L. Ed. 791. Actual loss as distinguished from presumed loss.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

See Measure of Damages.

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States

John Bouvier · 1839

Vide Damages, Special; and 1 Chit. Pl. 385; Com. Dig. Action on the case for Defamation, D 30—G 11.