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Legal Terms - damnum sine injuria esse potest
[Latin: there may be damage or injury inflicted without any wrong being done] the idea that if a claimant has been harmed by another person's actions and the defendant's actions were not illegal, the claimant may not be eligible to get compensation. In the case of Mayor of Bradford v Pickles [1895] AC 587 (HL), for instance, the House of Lords declined to step in to support a landowner who, displeased that a municipal authority had declined to buy his plot in relation to a water-supply scheme, had intercepted underground water seeping through his land in an area that belonged to the corporation through unclear channels. The landowner did not break any laws in doing so; even if the local authority's water supply was harmed, they were not legally wronged
[Latin: there may be damage or injury inflicted without any wrong being done] the idea that if a claimant has been harmed by another person's actions and the defendant's actions were not illegal, the claimant may not be eligible to get compensation. In the case of Mayor of Bradford v Pickles [1895] AC 587 (HL), for instance, the House of Lords declined to step in to support a landowner who, displeased that a municipal authority had declined to buy his plot in relation to a water-supply scheme, had intercepted underground water seeping through his land in an area that belonged to the corporation through unclear channels. The landowner did not break any laws in doing so; even if the local authority's water supply was harmed, they were not legally wronged
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