Punitive (and) Pain-and-Suffering Damages in Brazil

Osny Silva Filho

Chapter Chapter 10 in Law and Social Economics, 2015, pp 183-207 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Pain-and-suffering damages have become one of the cornerstones of the modern regulation of liability. The functions they should perform, however, have been controversial since their explicit recognition in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Once completely set aside from the exemplary, vindictive, or punitory damages of the early English law,1 compensations for pain and suffering slowly got closer (again) to punitive roles, both in theory and in practice.2

Keywords: Civil Code; Civil Liability; Identity Theft; Punitive Damage; Damage Award (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137443762_10

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