pecuniary loss

pecuniary loss
A loss of money or of something by which money or something of money value may be acquired. Dow v Legg, 120 Neb 271, 231 NW 747, 74 ALR 5; Green v Hudson River Railroad Co. (NY) 32 Barb 25, 33. As this term is used in death statutes allowing the "pecuniary damages" resulting to the beneficiaries to be recovered in an action, the words are not used in a sense of the immediate loss of money or property, but they look to the prospective advantages of a pecuniary nature which have been cut off by the premature death of the person from whom they have proceeded. 22 Am J2d Dth § 123.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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