☩ SOTERIAN GLOSSARY ☩

Living Language Lexicon of the Soteria Covenant

Additur

A court's increase of an inadequate jury verdict, offered as an alternative to granting a new trial, requiring the defendant to accept the increased amount or face a new trial on damages. Not permitted in federal court.

Etymology: Latin 'additur' (it is added) · Category: Civil Procedure · Source: Dimick v. Schiedt, 293 U.S. 474 (1935)
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