SOUNDING IN DAMAGES
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SOUNDING IN DAMAGESSOUNDING IN DAMAGES. When an action is brought, not for the recovery of
lands, goods, or sums of money, (as is the case in real or mixed actions, or the personal action of debt or detinue,) but for damages only, as in covenant, trespass, &c., the action is said to be sounding in damages. Steph. Pl. 126, 127.
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