These are similar to, but different from, nominal damages (see below), in which no written sum is specified.

If no loss has been occasioned by the plaintiff, only nominal damages will be awarded.

In the English jurisdiction, nominal damages are generally fixed at £2.

Whistler wins a farthing in nominal damages, and is bankrupted by his legal costs.

Many times a party that has been wronged but is not able to prove significant damages will sue for nominal damages.

He received only nominal damages.

Nominal damages are very small damages awarded to show that the loss or harm suffered was technical rather than actual.

As the Courts engage in active case management, such cases would probably now be expected to be settled by mediation and payment of nominal damages.

Even if the buyer were able to do that, the greatest reduction the buyer could achieve would still leave the seller entitled to nominal damages.

The planters filed for only nominal damages even as they had decided to prosecute Long for libel in a criminal suit.

The most venerable type of extra-compensatory damages, long established in our common law jurisprudence, is nominal damages.

Nominal damages are awarded where a legal wrong has been committed but no consequential loss has been caused.

The Halperins were awarded $1 in nominal damages in August 1977."

Although many false arrest suits result in only nominal damages, such mistakes usually result in large awards against the arresting officers.

The jury reached a verdict in favor of Whistler but awarded him only a single farthing in nominal damages, and the court costs were split.

The Court of Appeal held the clause was a penalty and Dunlop could only get nominal damages.

The judge also awarded FDI nominal damages.

Generally, an individual invoking this privilege is obligated to pay any actual damages caused in the use of the property but not punitive or nominal damages.

It awarded the USFL only one dollar in nominal damages, which was tripled under antitrust law to three dollars.

The question in this case was whether those who win judgments that their rights have been violated, but who win only nominal damages, can be considered "prevailing parties."

From every illegal entry onto another's land, the law infers some damages, even if only the nominal damages of treading down the grass, herbage, or shrubbery.

Curzon, who in fact allowed his ex-wife £25 a week (equivalent to about £2,000 in 2007 values), won the case but was awarded only nominal damages.

The jury cited the league's abandonment of Denver and several other major markets as one reason why it awarded the USFL only nominal damages.

The maximum fine of €12,000 (£8,200) and nominal damages (there is no prison sanction) are hardly likely to cause Thomson or Sabbagh sleepless nights.

However, Justice Thomas went on to say that a plaintiff who has won only a moral victory and nominal damages, while technically eligible for a fee award, should "usually" be entitled to none.

In the English jurisdiction, nominal damages are generally fixed at £2.

These are similar to, but different from, nominal damages (see below), in which no written sum is specified.

If no loss has been occasioned by the plaintiff, only nominal damages will be awarded.

Whistler wins a farthing in nominal damages, and is bankrupted by his legal costs.

Many times a party that has been wronged but is not able to prove significant damages will sue for nominal damages.

He received only nominal damages.

Nominal damages are very small damages awarded to show that the loss or harm suffered was technical rather than actual.

As the Courts engage in active case management, such cases would probably now be expected to be settled by mediation and payment of nominal damages.

The Court of Appeal held the clause was a penalty and Dunlop could only get nominal damages.

Nominal damages are awarded where a legal wrong has been committed but no consequential loss has been caused.

Even if the buyer were able to do that, the greatest reduction the buyer could achieve would still leave the seller entitled to nominal damages.

The most venerable type of extra-compensatory damages, long established in our common law jurisprudence, is nominal damages.

The planters filed for only nominal damages even as they had decided to prosecute Long for libel in a criminal suit.

The jury reached a verdict in favor of Whistler but awarded him only a single farthing in nominal damages, and the court costs were split.

Although many false arrest suits result in only nominal damages, such mistakes usually result in large awards against the arresting officers.

The judge also awarded FDI nominal damages.

It awarded the USFL only one dollar in nominal damages, which was tripled under antitrust law to three dollars.

Generally, an individual invoking this privilege is obligated to pay any actual damages caused in the use of the property but not punitive or nominal damages.

The question in this case was whether those who win judgments that their rights have been violated, but who win only nominal damages, can be considered "prevailing parties."

From every illegal entry onto another's land, the law infers some damages, even if only the nominal damages of treading down the grass, herbage, or shrubbery.

The jury cited the league's abandonment of Denver and several other major markets as one reason why it awarded the USFL only nominal damages.

Historically, one of the best known nominal damage awards was the farthing that the jury awarded to James Whistler in his libel suit against John Ruskin.

However, Justice Thomas went on to say that a plaintiff who has won only a moral victory and nominal damages, while technically eligible for a fee award, should "usually" be entitled to none.

Lastly, where the plaintiff proves only minimal loss or damage, or the court or jury is unable to quantify the losses, the court or jury may award nominal damages.

The case dragged on for about three months, and the jury finally delivered its verdict on August 14, 1919, finding in favor of Ford and awarding him nominal damages of six cents.

The European Union must be the initiator, because a failure to take responsibility towards the next generation on the global scale is now inflicting material and non-material damage on Europe's citizens.

The Afghan citizen was compensated for non-material damage, not based on the Dublin regulation, but how much compensation can be applied for due to non-material damage by those fleeing wars who spend years going back and forth between camps?