Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In law, a loss, damage, or harm, irrespective of whether the cause is a legal wrong or not.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (law) Harm; detriment, either to character or property.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun law
harm ;detriment
Etymologies
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Examples
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Like an ad damnum clause, often the Court will give no more than it is asked for, so it was also a tough question.
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Like an ad damnum clause, often the Court will give no more than it is asked for, so it was also a tough question.
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This comment was written by damnum absque injuria.
False story alert: Women in Germany probably not being forced into prostitution by welfare state 2005
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Report this comment to the moderators damnum absque injuria Writes:
False story alert: Women in Germany probably not being forced into prostitution by welfare state 2005
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Report this comment to the moderators damnum absque injuria » Et Tu, Lileks!
False story alert: Women in Germany probably not being forced into prostitution by welfare state 2005
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Report this comment to the moderators damnum absque injuria Writes:
False story alert: Women in Germany probably not being forced into prostitution by welfare state 2005
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The city's name poses a problem: But the name of the city of Epidamnos raises a bad omen for the Romans, since they fear that their occupation would prove 'to the harm' epi-damnum of Rome.
nomen omen Horace Jeffery Hodges 2005
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This comment was written by damnum absque injuria.
False story alert: Women in Germany probably not being forced into prostitution by welfare state 2005
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Hoc flumen transit per medium Cathay, cui aqua infert damnum, quando nimis inundat, sicut palus in Ferraria,
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Indè transiui per 8. dietas per multas terras et ciuitates, et veni tandem per aquam dulcem ad quandam ciuitatem nomine Leneyn, quæ est posita super flumen vocatum Caramoran, quod per medium Catai transit, et magnum damnum sibi infert, quando erumpit.
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