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parasitic damages

noun

C2CEFR level
90/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister

Additional losses recoverable only because they attach to an independently actionable head of damage.

The distress claim is parasitic damages, riding on the established property loss rather than standing alone.

Similar: consequential heads

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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