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Definition of punitive damages in English: punitive damagesplural noun Law Damages exceeding simple compensation and awarded to punish the defendant. Example sentencesExamples - Exemplary damages or punitive damages, the terms are synonymous, stand apart from awards of compensatory damages.
- The Court has thus confirmed that punitive damages can be awarded in the absence of an accompanying tort.
- The plaintiff recovered punitive damages in the cause now in issue, the total award exceeding one million dollars.
- The Law Commission emphasised that an award of punitive damages should be seen as a remedy of last resort.
- In my view, the case at bar is one where punitive damages must be awarded because of the conduct of all Defendants.
Definition of punitive damages in US English: punitive damagesplural noun Law Damages exceeding simple compensation and awarded to punish the defendant. Example sentencesExamples - Exemplary damages or punitive damages, the terms are synonymous, stand apart from awards of compensatory damages.
- The Law Commission emphasised that an award of punitive damages should be seen as a remedy of last resort.
- The plaintiff recovered punitive damages in the cause now in issue, the total award exceeding one million dollars.
- The Court has thus confirmed that punitive damages can be awarded in the absence of an accompanying tort.
- In my view, the case at bar is one where punitive damages must be awarded because of the conduct of all Defendants.
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