Words / N / Law

nervous shock

phrase

C2CEFR level
82/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister

A recognised psychiatric injury caused by a sudden shocking event, for which damages may be recovered.

As a secondary victim, she recovered damages for nervous shock after witnessing the collision.

Similar: psychiatric injury

Topic: Tort in Legal English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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