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/ɪndˈɛmnəti/ /ɪndˈɛmnɪti/ Listen

noun

Indemnity n. (pl. indemnities)

Security; insurance; exemption from loss or damage, past or to come; immunity from penalty, or the punishment of past offenses; amnesty. "Having first obtained a promise of indemnity for the riot they had committed."

Indemnification, compensation, or remuneration for loss, damage, or injury sustained. "They were told to expect, upon the fall of Walpole, a large and lucrative indemnity for their pretended wrongs." Note: Insurance is a contract of indemnity. The owner of private property taken for public use is entitled to compensation or indemnity.

Act of indemnity (Law), an act or law passed in order to relieve persons, especially in an official station, from some penalty to which they are liable in consequence of acting illegally, or, in case of ministers, in consequence of exceeding the limits of their strict constitutional powers. These acts also sometimes provide compensation for losses or damage, either incurred in the service of the government, or resulting from some public measure.

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"Indemnity" Quotes from Famous Books

... Poundtext, who sighed deeply, as he considered the danger in which he was placed betwixt unreasonable adversaries amongst themselves and the common enemy from without. Morton exhorted him to patience, temper, and composure; informed him of the good hope he had of negotiating for peace and indemnity through means of Lord Evandale, and made out to him a very fair prospect that he should again return to his own parchment-bound Calvin, his evening pipe of tobacco, and his noggin of inspiring ale, providing always he would afford his effectual ...

— Old Mortality, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott

... the injury they had done to the Kavirondo and the Masai. In this last respect the Wangwana people suffered nothing, for the countless herds of cattle belonging to their kabaka which had fallen into our hands as booty amply sufficed to replace what had been stolen from the Kavirondo and as indemnity for the slain Kavirondo and Masai warriors. Suna himself was carried away as prisoner, and interned on the ...

— Freeland - A Social Anticipation • Theodor Hertzka

... answer to Mr. Lowe's reply to Mr. Bright on the Cattle Plague Bill, and was thought at the time to have helped to get rid of a provision in the Government measure which would have given to landholders a second indemnity, after they had already been once indemnified for the loss of some of their cattle by the increased selling price ...

— Autobiography • John Stuart Mill

... assisted them in building schools had recently been ruined by the Austrian agrarian policy, for when in 1853 the Austrians put into execution what the Diet of Croatia had resolved to do in 1848 and freed the peasants from their serfdom, the indemnity they gave the landlords was in Austrian State papers, which the landlords had to take at the face value, though this was far above what they were worth. The owners of the so-called latifundia, mostly German or Hungarian ...

— The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1 • Henry Baerlein

... horse, which had been selected from the whole train for this purpose, he immediately crossed the ford, and fled with great rapidity to the neighbouring woods, nor could he be induced to return until the suspension which he had lately incurred was removed, and a full promise of security and indemnity obtained; the horse was then restored to one party, and ...

— The Itinerary of Archibishop Baldwin through Wales • Giraldus Cambrensis

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