'Vindictive damages' definitions:

Definition of 'Vindictive damages'

From: GCIDE
  • Vindictive \Vin*dic"tive\, a. [For vindicative, confused with L. vindicta revenge, punishment, fr. vindicare to vindicate. Cf. Vindicative.]
  • 1. Disposed to revenge; prompted or characterized by revenge; revengeful. [1913 Webster]
  • I am vindictive enough to repel force by force. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Punitive. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • Vindictive damages. (Law) See under Damage, n. [1913 Webster] -- {Vin*dic"tive*ly}, adv. -- {Vin*dic"tive*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'vindictive damages'

From: GCIDE
  • Damage \Dam"age\ (d[a^]m"[asl]j; 48), n. [OF. damage, domage, F. dommage, fr. assumed LL. damnaticum, from L. damnum damage. See Damn.]
  • 1. Injury or harm to person, property, or reputation; an inflicted loss of value; detriment; hurt; mischief. [1913 Webster]
  • He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off the feet and drinketh damage. --Prov. xxvi. 6. [1913 Webster]
  • Great errors and absurdities many commit for want of a friend to tell them of them, to the great damage both of their fame and fortune. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. pl. (Law) The estimated reparation in money for detriment or injury sustained; a compensation, recompense, or satisfaction to one party, for a wrong or injury actually done to him by another. [1913 Webster]
  • Note: In common-law actions, the jury are the proper judges of damages. [1913 Webster]
  • Consequential damage. See under Consequential.
  • Exemplary damages (Law), damages imposed by way of example to others. Similar in purpose to vindictive damages, below.
  • Nominal damages (Law), those given for a violation of a right where no actual loss has accrued.
  • vindictive damages or punitive damages, those given specially for the punishment of the wrongdoer.
  • Syn: Mischief; injury; harm; hurt; detriment; evil; ill. See Mischief. [1913 Webster]