Means the recovery allowed in an action at law as contrasted with compensation

• A. Remedy
• B. Damages
• C. Redress
• D. Punitive damages

Answer: (B)

Damages are the monetary amount a court awards to a plaintiff to compensate for losses caused by a breach of contract or a tort. In civil procedure, actions at law generally seek this money recovery, which is meant to place the injured party in as close a position as possible to where they would have been if the wrongful act hadn’t occurred. This contrasts with remedies in equity, which are non-monetary—like injunctions or orders of specific performance—when money alone isn’t an adequate remedy. While damages cover actual losses (and can include certain incidental or consequential losses), punitive damages are a special, sometimes-awarded subset intended to punish particularly wrongful conduct, not the standard compensation. So the recovery described for an action at law is best identified as damages.