About The Word Indemnity

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Indemnity

Indemnity Meaning & Definition
Indemnity Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Indemnity?

[n] a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury
[n] legal exemption from liability for damages
[n] protection against future loss

Synonyms | Synonyms for Indemnity: amends | damages | indemnification | insurance | redress | restitution

Related Terms | Find terms related to Indemnity: absolution | amends | amnesty | assurance | atonement | award | balancing | blood money | bond | certification | commutation | compensation | composition | compromise | consideration | counteraction | counterbalancing | damages | disbursement | endorsement | exculpation | excuse | exemption | exoneration | expiation | expiatory offering | grace | guarantee | guaranty | guerdon | honorarium | immunity | impunity | indemnification | insurance | lex talionis | making amends | making good | making right | making up | meed | nolle prosequi | non prosequitur | nonprosecution | offsetting | pardon | payment | peace offering | piaculum | price | privilege | propitiation | protection | quid pro quo | quittance | reckoning | reclamation | recompense | rectification | redemption | redress | reimbursement | remission | remission of sin | remuneration | reparation | repayment | reprieve | reprisal | requital | requitement | restitution | restoration | retaliation | retribution | return | revenge | reward | safety | salvage | satisfaction | security | shrift | smart money | solatium | sparing | squaring | stay | stocks and bonds | substitution | surety | tie | warrant | warranty | wergild

See Also | actual damages | atonement | compensation | compensatory damages | exemplary damages | exemption | expiation | freedom | general damages | nominal damages | protection | punitive damages | relief | satisfaction | shelter | smart money

Indemnity In Webster's Dictionary

\In*dem"ni*ty\, n.; pl. {Indemnities}. [L. indemnitas, fr. indemnis uninjured: cf. F. indemnit['e]. See {Indemnify}.] 1. Security; insurance; exemption from loss or damage, past or to come; immunity from penalty, or the punishment of past offenses; amnesty. Having first obtained a promise of indemnity for the riot they had committed. --Sir W. Scott. 2. Indemnification, compensation, or remuneration for loss, damage, or injury sustained. They were told to expect, upon the fall of Walpole, a large and lucrative indemnity for their pretended wrongs. --Ld. Mahon. Note: Insurance is a contract of indemnity. --Arnould. The owner of private property taken for public use is entitled to compensation or indemnity. --Kent. {Act of indemnity} (Law), an act or law passed in order to relieve persons, especially in an official station, from some penalty to which they are liable in consequence of acting illegally, or, in case of ministers, in consequence of exceeding the limits of their strict constitutional powers. These acts also sometimes provide compensation for losses or damage, either incurred in the service of the government, or resulting from some public measure.

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