Timeline for Why does "damages" mean "the sum of money claimed or adjudged to be paid in compensation for loss or injury sustained"?
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| S Mar 13, 2021 at 6:42 | history | bounty ended | CommunityBot | ||
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| Mar 13, 2021 at 4:09 | comment | added | user50720 | @jsw29 Your previous comment nailed my question perfectly! | |
| Mar 10, 2021 at 23:00 | answer | added | Tuffy | timeline score: 1 | |
| S Mar 10, 2021 at 12:31 | history | suggested | cpit | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 10, 2021 at 12:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglish/status/1369619056777650178 | ||
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| Mar 9, 2021 at 15:59 | answer | added | TaliesinMerlin | timeline score: 0 | |
| Mar 9, 2021 at 0:52 | comment | added | Robusto | See Damage vs. Damages on this site. | |
| Mar 8, 2021 at 23:32 | answer | added | Greybeard | timeline score: 1 | |
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| Mar 7, 2021 at 21:50 | comment | added | jsw29 | @Jim, note that you would say 'Let me pay for the damage', and that is indeed perfectly intuitive. In the legal terminology that the OP is asking about one would, however, say 'Let me pay the damages', and then when the neighbour collects the payment, one would say that the neighbour has collected the damages; that is what some people find unintuitive. | |
| Mar 7, 2021 at 17:44 | comment | added | jsw29 | Related: How did 'damages' semantically shift to mean 'money awards which respond to wrongs'?. | |
| Mar 7, 2021 at 17:41 | comment | added | jsw29 | Following up on the comment by user66974, it is unclear how an answer to this question could go beyond what is presented within the question itself. When a pattern of usage is that old, it is unlikely that anyone will be able to discover what precisely was on the minds of those who started it, and why something that seems unintuitive to us seemed intuitive to them. | |
| Mar 7, 2021 at 16:15 | comment | added | user 66974 | The answer is in the sources you cited in your question. | |
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| S Mar 7, 2021 at 1:13 | history | notice added | user50720 | Draw attention | |
| Feb 28, 2021 at 6:51 | comment | added | Jim | It’s always seemed intuitive to me. If my son broke the neighbor’s window I’d say, “Let me pay for the damage. How much was the damage?” “It wasn’t just the window it was also the sofa and the rug and the coffee table.” “Ok how much are the damages altogether?” | |
| Feb 28, 2021 at 6:40 | history | edited | user50720 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 28, 2021 at 6:33 | history | asked | user50720 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |