Damages

Question 1

Adequate compensation only for pecuniary loss suffered by a person as he has duly proved

Answer 1

Actual / compensatory damages

Question 2

Physical suffering, mental anguish, fright, serious anxiety, besmirsched reputation, wounded feelings, moral shock, social humiliation and similar injury

Answer 2

Moral damages

Question 3

Monetary compensation over and above actual or compensatory damages awarded as punishment or deterrence, because of the wanton, reckless, malicious or oppressive nature of the wrong committed; “correction for the public good”

Answer 3

Exemplary / corrective damages

Question 4

Trifling sum awarded to the plaintiff in an action where there is no substantial loss or injury to be compensated but where the law recognizes a technical invasion of the right of the plaintiff or a breach of the defendant’s duty

Answer 4

Nominal damages

Question 5

Those agreed by the parties to a contract, to be paid in case of breach thereof

Answer 5

Liquidated damages

Question 6

More than nominal but less than compensatory damages recovered when the court finds that some pecuniary loss has been suffered but it’s amount cannot be proved with certainty

Answer 6

Temperate / moderate damage

Question 7

Pecuniary compensations that may be recovered for an injury sustained or from breach of some duty, or violation of some right recognized by law

Answer 7

Damages