DAMAGES, DOUBLE OR TREBLE
\dˈamɪd͡ʒɪz], \dˈamɪdʒɪz], \d_ˈa_m_ɪ_dʒ_ɪ_z]\
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Practice. In cases where a statute gives a party double or treble damages, the jury are to find single damages, and the court to enhance them, according to the statute Bro. Ab. Damages, pl. 70; 2 Inst. 416; 1 Wils. 126; 1 Mass. 155. In Sayer on Damages, p. 244, it is said, the jury may assess the statute damages and it would seem from some of the modern cases, that either the jury or the court may assess. Say. R. 214; 1 Gallis. 29.
By John Bouvier
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