damage cleer

damage-cleer (dam-ij kleer), n. [fr. Latin damna clericorum “clerk’s compensation”] Hist. A set fee payable by a plaintiff to the Court of the Common Pleas, King’s Bench, or Exchequer before execution on an award of damages. • The fee — later abolished by statute — was originally a gratuity to the court clerks for preparing special pleadings. It was later abolished by statute. — Also spelled damage cleere.

— Also termed damna clericorum.

“Damage cleere, damna clericorum, was assessed by the tenth part in the common pleas, and by the twentieth part in the king’s bench and exchequer, of all damages, exceeding five marks, recovered either by verdict, confession, or judgment of the court, in all actions upon the case, covenant, trespass, battery, false imprisonment, dower, and all others, wherein the damages were uncertain, which the plaintiff was obliged to pay to the prothonotary, or chief officer of that court, wherein they were recovered before he could have execution for them. But this is taken away by 17 Car. 2, c. 6.” Termes de la Ley 141 (1st Am. ed. 1812).

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