Also known as: remunerations · remunerate · remunerates · remunerated · remunerating · compensation · payment for services
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Payment or compensation made to a person for services, work, property interests, or other obligations. The term encompasses both monetary sums and other forms of recompense provided as consideration.
The federal government condemned a parcel owned by Ronald Reed to build a highway. Reed received a check calculated to reflect the fair market value of the land taken. That payment constituted the required remuneration for the loss of his property interest.
The board of Rocky Mountain Mining met and voted to pay each outside director an annual retainer plus meeting fees. Under the corporation's governing documents the board possessed authority to set that remuneration without shareholder approval.
Judge Roger Ramirez drafted a will for his sister without charging any fee. The judicial conduct rules permitted him to provide that uncompensated assistance to a family member while still barring him from serving as her lawyer in court.
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Redline Automotive agreed to pay attorney Robert Rivera for representing one of its employees in a personal-injury suit. Rivera obtained the client's informed consent and confirmed that the arrangement would not affect his independent judgment before accepting the remuneration.
After a defective product caused burns, the jury awarded Rhea Reynolds a sum intended to cover her medical expenses and lost wages. That award represented compensatory damages paid as remuneration for the harm she sustained.
A court modified an easement that had become impractical because of changed conditions and required the benefited landowner to pay Renee Rogers a lump sum. The payment served as remuneration for the resulting reduction in value of her servient estate.
The term covers any form of payment or recompense given in exchange for services. Dictionary definitions treat it as synonymous with compensation, which may include salary, fees, or other consideration.
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A trustee receives reasonable compensation when the trust instrument does not specify a different amount. Statutes authorize courts to reduce that compensation as a remedy for breach of trust.
A partner is not entitled to remuneration for services performed for the partnership except for reasonable compensation during winding up. The default rule bars ordinary salary payments to partners.
A judge may not practice law for compensation. The rules permit only uncompensated advice and document preparation for family members.
A lawyer may accept compensation from someone other than the client only with the client's informed consent and without interference with professional judgment.
…of the defendants' default and that they were the only loss actually sustained. The principle of damages is to render compensation to the injured party. Authorities and treatises were cited, including Sedgwick on the Measure of Damages, where the rule is stated that in contract cases damages may be those which both…