treble damages

treble damages
Multiple damages awarded under statutory authority for certain classes of wrongs, some courts regarding the excess of the award over the amount of injury actually sustained as an extraordinary liability imposed by way of penalty, others regarding it as an extraordinary liability imposed under a statute which is remedial and non-punitive. 22 Am J2d Damg §§ 267, 268.

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