5.6 Nominal Damages
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Nominal damages, like the name implies, involve a trivial sum of money. In the majority of civil cases, the amount awarded is one dollar. But depending on your jurisdiction, the context of the case can play a role.
What is an example of nominal damages? An example of nominal damages is a situation where a defendant breached a contract and failed to fulfill the terms of the agreement, but the plaintiff wasn't harmed by this failure.
A trivial sum of money awarded to a plaintiff whose legal right has been technically violated but who has not established that they are entitled to compensatory damages because there was no accompanying loss or harm.
Difference between Nominal and Punitive damages. Nominal damages is a small amount for the court's record to establish the wrongful conduct of the defendant. Punitive damages is a big amount to compensate the plaintiff for the damages and also to deter him from doing it again in the future.
It is to be distinguished from nominal damages because nominal damages are awarded when the plaintiff has suffered no loss, whereas contemptuous damages are awarded when the plaintiff has suffered some loss but he does not deserve to be fully compensated.
A small amount of money awarded to the plaintiff in a civil lawsuit when a judge or jury finds that the plaintiff has suffered a legal wrong, but no compensatory damages. A dollar is a common amount for a nominal damages award.
How Much Are Nominal Damages? Nominal damages are a small or trivial sum because the purpose is not to make the plaintiff whole for a financial loss but rather to provide acknowledgement that the plaintiff won their case. In most instances, nominal damages total $1. Sometimes, the sum can be a little bit more.
A nominal damages claim differs from a ?small claim? in the sense that a nominal damages award is not a lawsuit seeking a monetary sum of $1. A nominal-damages lawsuit seeks an affirmation of the plaintiff's rights, and the mark of that affirmation is the dollar.
