It is a most important head of damages.

Naturally enough different figures are advanced by council on either side, though that difference on this particular head of damage is not great.

Spartan Steel claimed all the three heads of damage.

The award of damages may include the following heads of damage:

Her loss of health and strength would fall under the head of damage proper ("nezeḳ").

The principles of assessment, the heads of damage and the deductions that have to be made are dealt with in this chapter.

Ephraim's third wife, Rena, mother of many children, was head of Damage Control.

Another head of damages that can be awarded is called "punitive damages", or sometimes "exemplary damages".

To that sum must be added under a different heading of damages, past loss of earnings for the period when she would have entered the catering industry.

In some areas of the law this heading of damages is uncontroversial; most particularly intellectual property rights and breach of fiduciary relationship.

If the words used are wide enough for the above purpose, the court must then consider whether "the head of damage may be based on some ground other than negligence".

Commonly claims range over a number of "points of claim" resulting in a large number of "heads of damage" under which the contractor claims to have suffered loss.

In certain areas of the law another head of damages has long been available, whereby the defendant is made to give up the profits made through the civil wrong in restitution.

The defendant admitted that he had been negligent, but said he was not liable for the psychiatric damage as it was unforeseeable and therefore not recoverable as a head of damage.

In each case the court seeks to assess and award damages that are equivalent to the loss sustained by the plaintiff-in each case the same heads of damage are recoverable and in each case similar deductions have to be made.

Where this action is available, however, damages may be claimed under three broad heads of damage: incurred medical costs, or those yet to be incurred by the plaintiff, the loss of the injured spouse's services, and loss of society (within certain parameters).

The "other ground" must not be so fanciful or remote that the proferens canot be supposed to have desired protection against it; but subject to this qualification.the existence of a possible head of damage other than that of negligence is fatal to the proferens even if the words used are prima facie wide enough to cover negligence.