Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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substantial damages

A considerable sum awarded to compensate for a significant loss or injury. Cf. nominal damages. "Substantial damages are the result of an effort at measured compensation, and are to be contrasted with nominal damages which are in no sense compensatory, but merely symbolic." Charles T. McCormick, Handbook on the Law of Damages § 20, at 85 (1935).