1) Legal terminology 
An additur Latin `it is added to` is a legal term referring to the practice of a trial judge adding damages additional to the original amount awarded by the jury. It is not allowed in U.S. federal courts, as held by Dimick vs. Schiedt, 293 U.S. 474 (1935),. However, Dimick was decided before Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins (1938), which given the .....
An increase by a judge in the amount of damages awarded by a jury.