compensation

A return for a benefit conferred or promised, that is, a consideration. Searcy v Grow, 15 Cal 117; a remuneration for services, whether in the form of a fixed salary, fees, commissions, or perquisites of whatever character. 43 Am J1st Pub Of § 340; redress for property taken or injury caused by the taking of property under the power of eminent domain. Symonds v Cincinnati, 14 Ohio 147. A set-off in the Scottish law; redress in damages for injuries generally; the payment made to an injured employee by the employer under a workmen's compensation act. As the term is used in workmen's compensation acts, it means the money relief afforded according to the scale established and for the persons designated by the act, and it does not refer to the compensatory damages which may be recovered in an action at law for a wrong done or a contract broken. Mosely v Empire Gas & Fuel Co. 313 Mo 225, 281 SW 762, 45 ALR 1223, 1232. A civil law term meaning the extinction of debts of which two persons are reciprocally debtors to one another, by the credits by which they are reciprocally creditors to one another. 20 Am J2d Countcl etc. § 5. Sec compensatory damages; unemployment compensation; workmen's compensation.