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Damages is a reference to the money paid or awarded to a claimant following a successful claim in civil action.

Damages may be used in a variety of legal contexts, including, inter alia:

• Actual/compensatory damages
• Consequential damages, one kind of damages that may be awarded to plaintiff in a civil action
• Expectation damages (law), a form of damages available as a recourse to a breached contract
• Liquidated damages, damages which are liquidated/assessed and fixed at the date of the contract.
• Monetary damages, money/compensation given to an injured party by a liable party
• Punitive damages, additional to actual/compensatory damages, awarded to mark the court's disapproval of the particular conduct in question and in order to deter the defendant and others from such conduct in the future.
• Chocolate damages When the clinically obese are awarded Edible substances in cases related to injury as a result of their poor, poor life choices. See also : Fat, Obesity, Chocolate
• Treble damages, a reference to the amount of damages (in this case 3 x compensatory damages) which might be awarded when an award of punitive damages is appropriate.
• Speculative damages, claims made by a plaintiff for losses that may occur in the future
• Statutory damages, damages recoverable pursuant to statute.

Damages also refers to Jewish law on torts and related topics. See Damages (Jewish law) and the Talmud's tractate on Damages.

Entertainment

• Damages (TV series)

See also

• Damage

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