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lost profits

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lost profits 损失的利润 在合同诉讼中，是指无过错的受允诺人〔promisee〕预计可从违约的合同中获得的利润，或者如果按约履行，无过错一方可从附带交易中获得的利润。在侵权诉讼中，是指在没有侵权行为的情况下，受害人预计从正常交易中可得的预期收益。

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lost profits

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lost profits. 1. Contracts. A measure of damages that allows a seller to collect the profits that would have been made on the sale if the buyer had not breached. UCC § 2-708(2). [Cases: Damages 40; Sales 384(1). C.J.S. Damages §§ 58–61; Sales§§ 363, 365–366.] 2. Patents. A measure of damages set by estimating the

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lost earnings

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Wages, salary, or other income that a person could have earned if he or she had not lost a job, suffered a disabling injury, or died. • Lost earnings are typically awarded as damages in personal-injury and wrongful-termination cases. There can be past lost earnings and future lost earnings. Both are subsets of this category,

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lost will

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lost will 〈美〉丢失的遗嘱 指已经生效但在遗嘱人死亡时无法找到的遗嘱。在多数司法区，它的内容可用口头言词加以证明，但在有些州却有一个对之可予以反驳的假设，它认为，如果在立遗嘱人死亡时无法找到遗嘱，就表明一度存在的遗嘱已被撤销。

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lost earning capacity

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lost earning capacity. A person’s diminished earning power resulting from an injury. • This impairment is recoverable as an element of damages in a tort action. Cf. lost earnings under EARNINGS. [Cases: Damages 38. C.J.S. Damages § 56.] “To some extent the phrases ‘loss of earnings’ and ‘loss of earning capacity’ are used interchangeably. But

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theft of property lost, mislaid, or delivered by mistake

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Larceny in which one obtains control of property the person knows to be lost, mislaid, or delivered by mistake (esp. in the amount of property or identity of recipient) and fails to take reasonable measures to restore the property to the rightful owner. Model Penal Code § 223.5. — Also termed larceny of property lost,

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