indemnity

Security against damage, loss, or injury.

An exemption from liability for damages resulting from specified conduct, as in a contract indemnifying a party for the performance of certain actions.

Compensation for damage, loss, or injury suffered.

Security given against or exemption granted from damage, loss, injury, or punishment.

Indemnification; compensation for loss, damage, or injury sustained; reimbursement.

In law, that which is given to a person who has assumed or is about to assume a responsibility at the request or for the benefit of another, in order to make good to him any loss or liability which has or may come upon him by so doing.

Security; insurance; exemption from loss or damage, past or to come; immunity from penalty, or the punishment of past offenses; amnesty.

Indemnification, compensation, or remuneration for loss, damage, or injury sustained.

an act or law passed in order to relieve persons, especially in an official station, from some penalty to which they are liable in consequence of acting illegally, or, in case of ministers, in consequence of exceeding the limits of their strict constitutional powers. These acts also sometimes provide compensation for losses or damage, either incurred in the service of the government, or resulting from some public measure.

an obligation or duty upon an individual to incur the losses of another.