Contingent Damages Law and Legal Definition
When a demurrer has been filed to one or more counts in a declaration, and its consideration is postponed, and meanwhile other counts in the same declaration, not demurred to, are taken as issues, and tried, and damages awarded upon them, such damages are called contingent damages.
Legal Definition list
Related Legal Terms
- Abridgment of Damages
- Actual Damages
- Actus Inceptus Cujus Perfectio Pendet Ex Voluntate Partium Revocari Potest, Si Autem Pendet Ex Voluntate Tertiae Personae, Vel Ex Contingenti, Revocar
- Additional Damages
- Aggravated Damages
- Assessment of Damages
- Benefit-of-the Bargain Damages
- Compensatory Damages
- Consequential Damages
- Constructive Damages
