Amends

n. sing. &

1.

Compensation for a loss or injury; recompense; reparation. Yet thus far fortune maketh us amends. - Shak.

Noun	1.	amends - a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury Synonyms: damages, indemnification, redress, restitution, indemnity
	2.	amends - something done or paid in expiation of a wrong; "how can I make amends" Synonyms: reparation

AMENDS. A satisfaction, given by a wrong doer to the party injured for a wrong committed. 1 Lilly's Reg. 81.
     2. By statute 24 Geo. II. c. 44, in England, and by similar statutes in some of the United States, justices of the peace, upon being notified of an intended suit against them, may tender amends fore the wrong alleged or done by them in their official character, and if found sufficient, the tender debars the action. See Act of Penn. 21 March, 1772, Sec. 1 and.2; Willes' Rep. 671, 2; 6 Bin. 83; 5 Serg. & R. 517, 299; 3 Id. 295; 4 Bin. 20.

atonement, balancing, blood money, commutation, compensate, composition, compromise, consideration, correction, counteraction, counterbalancing, damages, expiation, expiatory offering, fixing, guerdon, honorarium, indemnification, indemnity, lex talionis, make amends, make reparation, make restitution, making amends, making good, making right, making up, meed, mending, offsetting, overhaul, overhauling, pay, paying back, peace offering, piaculum, price, propitiation, quittance, reclamation, recompense, rectification, redemption, redress, refund, reimbursement, remuneration, repair, repairing, repay, repayment, reprisal, requital, requite, requitement, retaliation, retribution, return, revenge, reward, salvage, satisfaction, smart money, solatium, squaring, substitution, troubleshooting, wergild

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