nominal damages

nominal damages

 
noun Law.
damages of a small amount awarded to a plaintiff where substantial compensable loss has not been established but whose legal rights were violated.
Origin:
1790–1800
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Nominal damages is always a great word to know.
So is privy. Does it mean:
a wrongful act, not including a breach of contract or trust, that results in injury to another's person, property, reputation, or the like
a person participating directly in or having a derivative interest in a legal transaction
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nominal damages

noun
(law) a trivial sum (usually $1.00) awarded as recognition that a legal injury was sustained (as for technical violations of a contract) 
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