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Definition of Liquidated damages

Liquidated damages
Liquidate Liq"ui*date (l[i^]k"w[i^]*d[=a]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Liquidated (-d[=a]`t[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Liquidating.] [LL. liquidatus, p. p. of liquidare to liquidate, fr. L. liquidus liquid, clear. See Liquid.] 1. (Law) To determine by agreement or by litigation the precise amount of (indebtedness); or, where there is an indebtedness to more than one person, to determine the precise amount of (each indebtedness); to make the amount of (an indebtedness) clear and certain. A debt or demand is liquidated whenever the amount due is agreed on by the parties, or fixed by the operation of law. --15 Ga. Rep. 321. If our epistolary accounts were fairly liquidated, I believe you would be brought in considerable debtor. --Chesterfield. 2. In an extended sense: To ascertain the amount, or the several amounts, of, and apply assets toward the discharge of (an indebtedness). --Abbott. 3. To discharge; to pay off, as an indebtedness. Friburg was ceded to Zurich by Sigismund to liquidate a debt of a thousand florins. --W. Coxe. 4. To make clear and intelligible. Time only can liquidate the meaning of all parts of a compound system. --A. Hamilton. 5. To make liquid. [Obs.] Liquidated damages (Law), damages the amount of which is fixed or ascertained. --Abbott.

Meaning of Liquidated damages from wikipedia

- Liquidated damages, also referred to as liquidated and ascertained damages (LADs), are damages whose amount the parties designate during the formation...
- damages which the parties contracted as liquidated, but which the court nonetheless found to be penal. To determine whether a clause is a liquidated damages...
- Punitive damages, or exemplary damages, are damages ****essed in order to punish the defendant for outrageous conduct and/or to reform or deter the defendant...
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- Consequential damages, otherwise known as special damages, are damages that can be proven to have occurred because of the failure of one party to meet...
- Reliance damages is the measure of compensation given to a person who suffered an economic harm for acting in reliance on a party who failed to fulfill...
- Statutory damages are a damage award in civil law, in which the amount awarded is sti****ted within the statute rather than being calculated based on...
- liquidated damages provision. The Oklahoma Supreme Court rejected Arkla's contention, stating: "Moreover, the deficiency payment is not a liquidated damages...
- liquidated damages is to provide certainty and to avoid both the bother and cost of legal proceedings. It is well established that liquidated damages...
- Penal damages are liquidated damages which exceed reasonable compensatory damages, making them invalid under common law. While liquidated damage clauses...