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indemnity costs

indemnity costs noun: a special award granted by a court requiring one party (normally the unsuccessful party in litigation) to indemnify another party against actual costs that the latter incurred in connection with the case.

Noun

indemnity costs pl (plural only)

  1. (Commonwealth, plural, plural-only) A special award granted by a court requiring one party (normally the unsuccessful party in litigation) to indemnify another party against actual costs that the latter incurred in connection with the case.

Questions about indemnity costs

What does indemnity costs mean?
Indemnity costs means a special award granted by a court requiring one party (normally the unsuccessful party in litigation) to indemnify another party against actual costs that the latter incurred in connection with the case.
What part of speech is indemnity costs?
Indemnity costs is a noun.

Words near indemnity costs in the dictionary

  1. indemnitees
  2. indemnities
  3. indemnitor
  4. indemnitors
  5. indemnity
  6. indemnity costs
  7. indemonstrability
  8. indemonstrable
  9. indemonstrableness
  10. indemonstrably
  11. indene

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