Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
duty to mitigate
Contracts. A nonbreaching party's duty to make reasonable efforts to limit losses resulting from the other party's breach. ( Not doing so precludes the party from collecting damages that might have
mitigate
, vb. To make less severe or intense <the fired employee mitigated her damages for wrongful termination by accepting a new job>. - mitigation, n. - mitigatory (mit-a-ga-tor-ee), adj. Cf MILITATE.