DOMMAGE SURVENU

dommage survenu (daw-mazh suur-v<<schwa>>-noo). [French] Damage sustained. • This is

from  article  17  of  the  Warsaw  Convention  providing  for  compensatory  damages,  rather  than

awards for  loss  of  society  or  punitive  damages,  for  bodily  injury  that  a  passenger  suffers  while

onboard  an  aircraft,  or  while  boarding  or  disembarking.  [Cases:  Carriers    307,  319.  C.J.S.

Aeronautics and Aerospace §§ 265, 267; Carriers §§ 573, 587.] [Blacks Law 8th]