Sentence examples for double damages from inspiring English sources

The words 'forfeit and pay' relate alike to the $2,000 sum and the double damages.

Is the action now before us, consisting of double damages and the $2,000 forfeiture, criminal or remedial?

A series of trials will determine whether the other insurers will owe for double damages at the trade center.

Still, it is easy to see how double damages for the entire sponsorship period, along with legal fees, could erode Mr. Armstrong's wealth.

Penalties such as double damages to employees, he said, mean "there's a material disincentive for employers to do the wrong thing," he said.

The punishment of persons not in the military or naval service (in addition to a pecuniary forfeiture and double damages) was fixed at fine or imprisonment, and no other.

This policy malpractice is doing double damage to America.

Given his chance to act the Southern belle, Henry does double damage to Amanda Wingfield and Scarlett O'Hara.

Specifically, demands for ever-harsher austerity, with no offsetting effort to foster growth, have done double damage.

If the court now strikes down the limits on individual campaign contributions, it will do double damage to our democracy.

It is argued that the $2,000 'forfeit and pay' provision is 'criminal' rather than 'civil' even if the double damage feature is not.