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- Grain as damages for injury to cat. B271.2
- Damages for the field devastated by a flock. David says pay money damages. Solomon says let laborers have flock till milk and wool have paid the damages. J1179.1
- The value of a blow. A judge awards damages of a penny against a friend of his for giving a blow. The defendant goes to get the money and is gone long. Meanwhile the plaintiff gives the judge a blow and tells him to use the penny as damages. J1193.2
- Man refuses to lend horse: sued for consequent damages. The would-be borrower gets one from another neighbor. He overworks the horse and renders him useless. The owner of the horse sues the man who had refused to lend his animal. Reasoning: "If he had lent his horse this would not have happened to mine." Settled by compromise. J1552.3
- The eaten grain and the cock as damages. A trickster has only a grain of corn; this is eaten by a cock, which he demands and receives as damages. Likewise when a hog eats the cock and the ox eats the hog. K251.1
- Trickster demands return of food guest has just eaten: gets damages. K251.2
- Damages claimed for loss of a charm. Princess lets trickster's fly (alleged to be a charm) escape. K251.3
- Damages for supposedly lost horse. Horse concealed by owner in loft of stable at inn. K251.4
- Damages for accidentally broken water pot: to pay for elephant. K251.5
- Trickster lights torches and bluffs old woman into giving him money. Torches alleged to belong to man coming to collect damages from her. K335.0.10
- Fox eats his fellow-lodger: accuses another and demands damages. He spends the night with a cock in a house. He eats the cock but in the morning accuses the sheep of having eaten it. In the next inn likewise he says that the ox has eaten the sheep, etc. In compensation he demands a larger animal each time. K443.7
- Lawyer's dog steals meat. The lawyer tells the butcher that the dog's owner (himself) is liable for damages. He ask double the amount of the damages as fee. K488
- Sham dumb man wins suit. The trickster meets a man in a narrow place in the road and calls out to him to make room. The man refuses and the trickster turns over the cart. In court the trickster plays dumb. The plaintiff says, "He is not dumb; he called out to me several times to get out of the way." Damages are assessed against the plaintiff for negligence. K1656
- Dead dog set up so that woman knocks it over. Must pay damages. K2152.1
- Man takes case against wind for damages. Wanting to have nothing to do with a court, the wind generously makes good the damages, and punishes the judge guilty of bribery. Z115.1