{"id":10975,"date":"2017-12-16T21:20:26","date_gmt":"2017-12-16T21:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=10975"},"modified":"2017-12-16T21:20:26","modified_gmt":"2017-12-16T21:20:26","slug":"substantial-damages-a-considerable-sum-awarded-to-compensate-for-a-significant-loss-or-injury-as-opposed-to-nominal-damages","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=10975","title":{"rendered":"Substantial Damages – a considerable sum awarded to compensate for a significant loss or injury, as opposed to nominal damages"},"content":{"rendered":"

substantial damages<\/span>:<\/span>
\n<\/strong>(1836)<\/span><\/p>\n

1. A considerable sum awarded to compensate for a significant loss or injury. <\/strong>[1]<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Excerpt from Charles T. McCormick’s Handbook on the Law of Damages<\/em><\/a> (1935):<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u201cSubstantial damages . . . are the result of an effort at measured compensation, and are to be contrasted with nominal damages<\/a> which are in no sense compensatory, but merely symbolic.<\/span>\u201d <\/strong>[2]<\/span><\/p>\n

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[1]: Black\u2019s Law <\/a><\/span><\/strong>Dictionary\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/strong>Deluxe<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/em> Tenth<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/em> Edition<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>by<\/b><\/span><\/strong> Henry Campbell Black, Editor in Chief Bryan A. Garner. ISBN: 978-0-314-61300-4<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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[2]: Charles T. McCormick, Handbook on the Law of Damages<\/em><\/a> \u00a7 20, at 85 (1935)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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