What is AFFIRMATIVE DAMAGES?

In admiralty law, affirmative damages are damages which a respondent in a libel for injuries to a vessel may recover, which may be in excess of any amount which the libellant would be entitled to claim. Ebert v. The Reuben Doud (D. C.t 3 Fed. 520.

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Related Legal Terms
EXCESSIVE DAMAGES, AFFIRMATIVE STATUTE, LIQUIDATED AND UNLIQUIDATED DAMAGES, AFFIRMATIVE PREGNANT, DOUBLE DAMAGES, TREBLE DAMAGES, DAMAGES PUNITIVE, DAMAGES EXCESSIVE, MITIGATION OF DAMAGES, ADDED DAMAGES


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