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The "prayer amount" is the demand for a specific dollar amount of damages. At the ender of the allegations of a count of the complaint, plaintiff prays for jdgment in an amount of damages plaintiff thinks the case is worth. That is obsolete now as most suits now have a "demand amount" instead.

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