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damnum

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[Latin, Damage.] The loss or reduction in the value of property, life, or health of an individual as a consequence of Fraud, carelessness, or accident.

The phrase ad damnum, "to the damage," is the name of a clause in a complaint that states the damages for which the individual seeks judicial relief.


See also: detriment, harm, injury, loss, mischief


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113) In other words, categorical protection from land use regulations is not offered to private land use choices which have been removed from capturable expectations, the regulation of which is damnum absque injuria, simply not injury at all.
1843)) ('That doctrine is thus stated: 'That the person who owns the surface may dig therein and apply all that is there found to his own purposes, at his free will and pleasure; and that if, in the exercise of such right, he intercepts or drains off the water collected from the underground springs in his neighbor's well, this inconvenience to his neighbor falls within the description of damnum absque injuria, which cannot become the ground of an action.
4 No ATLA member shall personally, or through an associate attorney, file a complaint with a specific ad damnum amount unless required by local rules of court.
 
 
 
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