n. [ L. compensatio a weighing, a balancing of accounts. ]
The parliament which dissolved the monastic foundations . . . vouchsafed not a word toward securing the slightest compensation to the dispossessed owners. Hallam. [ 1913 Webster ]
No pecuniary compensation can possibly reward them. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]
Compensation balance,
Compensated balance
Compensation pendulum.
n. [ Cf. LL. recompensatio. ]
. (Law) A statute fixing the compensation that a workman may recover from an employer in case of accident, esp. the British act of 6 Edw. VII. c. 58 (1906) giving to a workman, except in certain cases of “serious and willful misconduct, ” a right against his employer to a certain compensation on the mere occurrence of an accident where the common law gives the right only for negligence of the employer. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]