In the Philippines, damages may be claimed in real actions such as ejectment, recovery of ownership and possession, or accion
“Damages are given as a compensation, recompense, or satisfaction to the plaintiff, for an injury actually received by him from the defendant. They should be precisely commensurate with the injury, neither more or less; and this whether it be to his person or estate” .However, in the Philippines, damages may be claimed in real actions such as ejectment, recovery of ownership and possession, or accion publiciana, among others.
“[W]here the injury consisted in firing guns so near the plaintiff’s decoy-pond as to frighten away the wild fowls, or prevent them from coming there, or, in maliciously firing cannon at the natives on the coast of Africa, whereby they were prevented from coming to trade with the plaintiff; these consequences were held to be well inferred from the wrongful act” .
“Though incapable of pecuniary computation, moral damages may be recovered if they are the proximate result of the defendant’s wrongful act or omission” . “Exemplary or corrective damages are imposed, by way of example or correction for the public good…” . “[I]f the parties themselves have liquidated the damages; the jury are bound to find the amount thus agreed.
On the other hand, nominal damages are awarded to vindicate a plaintiff whose right has been violated, and not to indemnify him or her for any loss suffered . “It is no matter how bad a man the defendant is, if the plaintiff’s injury is not on that account the greater; nor how good he is, if that circumstance enhanced the wrong” .
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