If a slave or a grazing animal was unlawfully killed, the damages were equal to the highest value of the slave or animal in the preceding year; the burning, breaking, or destruction of other kinds of property brought compensation amounting to the highest value in the last 30 days.
We don't really think that's fair and that's why we have brought compensation into things.
Davis promised that he would bring compensation into line with the firm's profits.
He believes that the government should legislate to bring compensation ratios down.
More dicey was whether Rutt and Tuke's 85-minute commentary for the DVD should bring compensation for the two performers.
Victims who had tried to bring compensation claims through the Pakistani courts had been blocked by US refusals to respond to legal actions.
Between 2007 and 2008 Birmingham City Council paid out thousands of pounds to women bringing compensation claims, but only for those who did so within six months of leaving their jobs.
Most people will be aware that Tony Blair's disastrous "war on terror" has resulted in a substantial rise in the number of individuals, often former detainees, bringing compensation cases against the British government alleging mistreatment.
As a result, some health officials and medical experts are beginning to suggest a no-fault system, saying it would not only bring compensation to more injured patients but would also help uncover and correct poor medical practices.
Many are relatives of victims: an adolescent charged by a desperate grandmother with getting the form or signature that would bring compensation for his dead father; a small child who insists on being brought every day because he has been told his mother may yet be found.
