DAMAGE

Lo , tnju:ey, or deterioration,• caused by the neglige~ce, design, or accident of on_e person to another, in respect of K the latter's person or property. The word ls · to be distinguished from its plural,-"damages,"-which means a compensation in money for a lo or damage. An injury produces a right in them who han suffered any damage by it to demand reparation L of such damage from the authors of the injury. By damage, we understand eve i;y lo or diminution of what is a man's own, occasioned by the fault of another. 1 Ruth. Inst. 399. -Damage-cleer. A fee a e ed of the tenth part in the common pleas, and the twentieth part in the quee_n'e bench and exchequer, out of M all damages exceedinr live markll recovered ill [s. 319]