damn-, demn-

(Latin: to harm, damage, loss; sentence to punishment, doom; worthy of condemnation)

ad quod damnum

To what damage.

A legal phrase used for assessing damages relating to privately owned land that is taken for public use. The name of a writ formerly issuing from the English chancery, commanding the sheriff to make an inquiry "to what damage" a specified act, if done, will tend.

This writ is of ancient origin, and could be issued as a writ of right when a landowner was dissatisfied with the assessment of damages as a result of a condemnation commission.

condemn

condemnable

condemnation

condemnatory

condemned

condemningly

cryodamage

Damage to tissues, sperm, ova, or other substances during cryopreservation.

Cryopreservation is the maintaining of viability of excised tissue, organs, embryos, sperm, ova, or other substances; such as, for transplantation, by storing them at very low temperatures, usually with immersion in liquid nitrogen at -196.5°C.

damage

damageable

damageableness

damage function

A description of the relation between changes in the climate and consequent reductions in economic activity, relative to the rate of activity that would be possible in an unaltered climate.

damages

damanger

Someone or something which causes damage to; to injure or harm; to reduce the value or usefulness of.

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(Latin: to harm, damage, loss; sentence to punishment, doom; worthy of condemnation)

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