damnumn.
/ˈdamnəm/, U.S. /ˈdæmnəm/ Law.
A loss or wrong: see quot. 1862.
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1828 Reg. Deb. Congr. 4 i. 424 It is a loss which gives no legal title to indemnity; it is a damnum, but a damnum, as the law has it, absque injuria.
1862 J. W. Smith Man. Common Law 264 Damnum is such a damage, whether pecuniary or perceptible, or not, as is capable, in legal contemplation, of being estimated by a jury.
1969 R. F. V. Heuston Salmond's Law of Torts (ed. 15) xx. 719 A person who suffers damnum cannot recover compensation on the basis of injuria suffered by another.
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