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