Causing or relating to loss, damage, or harm; injurious or harmful, especially in legal or financial contexts.
Latin feminine form of damnosus (harmful, injurious), derived from damnum (loss, damage). Used primarily in classical Latin legal terminology and appears in some English legal texts.
The phrase 'damnosa hereditas' (a ruinous inheritance) is a famous Latin legal term — it describes inheriting someone's debts instead of wealth, which was such a problem that Roman law had to create special protections for heirs.
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