Temperate or Moderate Damages

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1. What must the court find before awarding temperate damages under Article 2224?
2. Article 2225 requires temperate damages to be what?
3. How does Article 2224 describe temperate damages relative to nominal and compensatory damages?
4. A wrongful act destroys property, and the court finds that financial loss certainly occurred but its amount cannot be e…
5. A plaintiff proves only emotional distress but no pecuniary loss. The plaintiff seeks temperate damages solely because …
6. A defendant unlawfully destroys stored goods. Reliable evidence establishes actual economic destruction, but the goods'…
7. A plaintiff proves a violation of a property right but the court finds no basis to conclude that any financial loss occ…
8. Explain the two factual propositions underlying temperate damages and why the first cannot be presumed merely from fail…
9. Distinguish temperate damages from nominal and moral damages using their purposes and required injuries.
10. What constrains the court's assessment of temperate damages when the precise financial amount cannot be established?
11. In People v. Patricio, what amount of temperate damages replaced unproved actual burial or funeral expenses?
12. In that funeral-expense setting, are temperate damages intended as an additional duplicate payment of the same actual e…