The phrase "a monetary sum" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific amount of money, often in financial or legal contexts.
Example: "The contract stipulates that the party must pay a monetary sum of $10,000 upon completion of the project."
Alternatives: "a financial amount" or "a cash sum".
Often, the impairment percentage so derived, then is directly translated into a monetary sum for purposes of compensating these losses.
Weirich suggests that the value of a monetary sum depends partly on the risks that went into obtaining it, irrespective of the gambler's feelings, so that (for instance) \$100 million as the result of a sure bet is more than \$100 million from a gamble that might have paid nothing.
Eventually a compromise was reached; Lovat retained the liferents and Fraser gained a monetary sum instead.
Damages are a monetary sum paid by the defendant for the claimant's loss of enjoyment or any physical damage suffered; they may be paid for things as varied as loss of sleep or any loss of comfort caused by noise or smells.
When the checks and letters of apology went out in 1991, President George H.W. Bush wrote to surviving families: "A monetary sum and words alone cannot restore lost years or erase painful memories; neither can they fully convey our nation's resolve to rectify injustice and to uphold the rights of individuals.
Wills remain important in the civil-law systems, however, both because the disposable share of the estate may amount to a large monetary sum and because the statutory share of the heirs tends to be viewed in monetary terms.
The Canadian Federation is a "monetary union".
Similar to funding highway maintenance with tolls and taxes, we asked if some monetary sum should be collected annually (e.g., when a citizen renew his/her driver's license) and how much they thought they would be willing to contribute.
This implies that any initial confidence the parents had in their children's ability to handle large sums of money early on (e.g. age 25) dissipates as the distribution becomes more imminent and, perhaps, the monetary sum increases.
There's the monetary sum, but there's also the toll that the incident has taken on me.
I think his method of translating 19th-century monetary sums into modern dollars sometimes wildly overestimates the current value.
