 | Joseph Chitty - Parties to actions - 1809 - 550 pages
...General damages are such as the law implies to have accrued from the wrong complained of. S/iccial damages are such as really took place, " and are not implied by law, and are either supcradded to general damages arising from an act injurious in itself, as where some particular loss... | |
 | Joseph Chitty - Forms (Law) - 1819 - 544 pages
...General damages are such as the law implies to have accrued from the wrong complained of. S/iecial damages are such as really took place, and are not implied by law, and are either superadcled to general damages arising from an act injurious in (a:) Id. ibid.— English v. Purser,... | |
 | Esek Cowen - Justices of the peace - 1821 - 804 pages
...have accrued from the wrong complained of, and maybe recovered under the above general conclusion. . Special damages, are such as really took place, and are not implied by law. The latter may arise as the consequence of some act, from which the law implies damage, or they may... | |
 | Joseph Chitty, Thomas Chitty - Forms (Law) - 1837 - 860 pages
...usual to by only a nominal sum as damages (m). action. Damages are either general or special. General damages are such as the law implies or presumes to have accrued from (he wrong complained of. Special damages are such as really took place and are not implied by law,... | |
 | Esek Cowen - Justices of the peace - 1841 - 698 pages
...have accrued from the wrong complained of, and may be recovered under the above general conclusion. Special damages are such as really took place, and are not implied by law. The latter may arise as the consequence of some act, from which the law implies damage, or they may... | |
 | John Bouvier - Anglo-Norman dialect - 1843 - 752 pages
...DAMAGES, SPECIAL, torts. Special damages are such as really took place, and arc not implied by law ; these are either superadded to general damages arising from an act injurious in itself, as when some particular loss arises from the uttering of slanderous words actionable in themselves, or... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1890 - 816 pages
...general. This is, however, not the rule. Special damages may be as actual as any other, but general damages are such as the law implies or presumes to...of. Special damages are such as really took place, but are not implied by law. The sickness of the defendant's child was not an injury which would ordinarily... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - Damages - 1852 - 722 pages
...the plaintiff claims redress. i "Damages," says Mr. Chitty,* "are either general or special. General damages are such as the law implies or presumes to...the wrong complained of. Special damages are such as reajly took place, and are not implied by law ; and are either superadded to general damages arising... | |
 | John Bouvier - Law - 1854 - 692 pages
...and the party aggrieved is not required to specify or prove what injury he has sustained, (a) 2274. Special damages are such as really took place, and are not implied by law ; these are superadded to general damages, arising from an act injurious in itself. To constitute special... | |
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Damages are either general or special. (lene ral damages are such as the law implies, or presumes to have accrued from the wrong complained of. 
