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nominal damages
plural 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.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of nominal damages1
First recorded in 1790–1800
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Example Sentences
Nominal damages, it will therefore be seen, are not the same as “small damages.”
From Project Gutenberg
Dockwra was ordered by the court to pay nominal damages, and was forbidden to continue his penny post.
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