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[[File:Naughty.jpg|450px|thumb|center|A candidate for [[exemplary damages]], yesterday.]] | [[File:Naughty.jpg|450px|thumb|center|A candidate for [[exemplary damages]], yesterday.]] | ||
}}In which a court becomes unusually censorious, and departs from its usual role of merely ''compensating'' victims of civil wrongdoing, and proactively ''punishes'' a wrongdoer for its naughtiness, independently of any compensatable loss it has caused. Not to be confused with [[aggravated damages]] or [[consequential loss]]. | }}In which a court becomes unusually censorious, and departs from its usual role of merely ''compensating'' victims of civil wrongdoing, and proactively ''punishes'' a wrongdoer for its naughtiness, independently of any compensatable loss it has caused. Not to be confused with [[aggravated damages]], which address unusual distress that he may have caused the victim, and therefore are still compensatory in nature, or [[consequential loss]], that speculative “oh-yeah-Jimmy-Hill” style damages for profits you ''might'' have made elsewhere had you not been busy being breached at under this contract. | ||
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