- prejudgment interest
- Interest allowed by way of damages, as for the unlawful detention of money found to be due the plaintiff in action for breach of contract or tort. 22 Am J2d Damg § 179.
Ballentine's law dictionary. Anderson, W.S.. 1998.
prejudgment interest
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