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Damnum Absque Injuria

Loss, hurt, or harm without injury in the legal sense, that is, withont such an invasion of rights as is redressible by an action. A loss which does not give rise to an action of damages against the person causing it; as where a person blocks up the windows of a new house overlooking hls land, or injures a person’s trade by setting up an estnblish-ment of the same kind in the neighborhood. Broom, Com. Law, 75; Marbury v. Madison, 1 Cranch, 164, 2 L. Ed. 60; west Virginia Transp* Co. v. Standard 011 Co., 50 W. Va. 611, 40 S. E. 591, 56 L. R. A. 804, 88 Am. St. Rep. 895; Irwin v. Askew, 74 Ga. 581; Chase v. Silverstone, 62 Me. 175, 16 Am. Rep

Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)