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- In tort: Punishment and appeasement
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- In procedural law: Enforcement of the judgment
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- In commercial transaction: Obligations of the seller

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Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	Invalidated site: Cornell University Law School - Damages.	Gloria Lotha	Dec 13, 2022
	Added new Web site: Cornell University Law School - Damages.	Neha Parwani	May 26, 2009
	Article added to new online database.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Jul 20, 1998