What is "to sound in damages"

Sound \Sound\, v. i. [OE. sounen, sownen, OF. soner, suner, F. sonner, from L. sonare. See Sound a noise.]

1. To make a noise; to utter a voice; to make an impulse of the air that shall strike the organs of hearing with a perceptible effect. ``And first taught speaking trumpets how to sound.''
   --Dryden.

   How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues!
   --Shak.

2. To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to convey intelligence by sound.

   From you sounded out the word of the Lord.
   --1 Thess. i. 8.

3. To make or convey a certain impression, or to have a certain import, when heard; hence, to seem; to appear; as, this reproof sounds harsh; the story sounds like an invention.

   Good sir, why do you start, and seem to fear Things that do sound so fair?
   --Shak.

   To sound in or To sound into, to tend to; to partake of the nature of; to be consonant with. [Obs., except in the phrase To sound in damages, below.]

   Soun[d]ing in moral virtue was his speech.
   --Chaucer.

   To sound in damages (Law), to have the essential quality of damages. This is said of an action brought, not for the recovery of a specific thing, as replevin, etc., but for damages only, as trespass, and the like.