{"id":1544,"date":"2016-12-24T12:22:35","date_gmt":"2016-12-24T06:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/?p=1544"},"modified":"2023-08-10T13:38:19","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T08:08:19","slug":"damage-damages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/damage-damages\/","title":{"rendered":"Damage and Damages"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The terms \u2018 damage \u2018 and \u2018 damages \u2018 are not synonymous in meaning . The term \u2018damages \u2018 is not also plural form of the term \u2018 damage\u2019 . The real meaning of the term \u2018 damage \u2018 differs from the term \u2018 damages \u2018. Distinction between the two terms are shown in the following tabular form .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"cms_table\">\n<table class=\"cms_table\">\n<tbody>\n<tr class=\"cms_table_tr\" valign=\"top\">\n<td class=\"cms_table_td\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td class=\"cms_table_td\"><b>Damage<\/b><\/td>\n<td class=\"cms_table_td\"><b>Damages.<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"cms_table_tr\" valign=\"top\">\n<td class=\"cms_table_td\">1.<\/td>\n<td class=\"cms_table_td\">The term damage means injury caused by any wrongful act .<\/td>\n<td class=\"cms_table_td\">On the other hand , damages means the compensation awarded by the Court for the injury caused by the wrongful act.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"cms_table_tr\" valign=\"top\">\n<td class=\"cms_table_td\">2.<\/td>\n<td class=\"cms_table_td\">Injury means injury to any legal right such as loss of money , health , property , comfort , mental peace or the like .<\/td>\n<td class=\"cms_table_td\">But the term damages means the sum claimed for injury to the legal right in order to compensate the loss .<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"cms_table_tr\" valign=\"top\">\n<td class=\"cms_table_td\">3.<\/td>\n<td class=\"cms_table_td\">The word damage tends to say infringement of a legal right by the defendant to the plaintiff.<\/td>\n<td class=\"cms_table_td\">While damages means pecuniary compensation awarded by the Court to the plaintiff for damage caused by the defendant .<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The terms \u2018 damage \u2018 and \u2018 damages \u2018 are not synonymous in meaning . The term \u2018damages \u2018 is not also plural form of the term \u2018 damage\u2019 . The real meaning of the term \u2018 damage \u2018 differs from the term \u2018 damages \u2018. Distinction between the two terms are shown in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1897,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-torts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1544"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8624,"href":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544\/revisions\/8624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}