Definition of sort for Students. 1  1 : a group of persons or things that have something in common : kind all sorts of people. 2  2 : person 1, individual He was not a bad sort. 3  3 : general disposition : nature people of an evil sort.
Punitive Damages Definition: Special and highly exceptional damages ordered by a court against a defendant where the act or omission which caused the suit, was of a particularly heinous, malicious or highhanded nature.
C. That the Plaintiff's burden of proof to establish. punitive damages in this proceeding, effectively criminal in. nature, is less than the burden of proof required in other criminal. proceedings, and thus violated Defendant's right to due process as.