The receiving satisfaction for an injury sustained.
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WRONG
An injury; a tort; a violation of right or of law.The idea of rights naturally suggests the correlative one of wrongs; for every right iscapable of being violated. A right to receive payment for goods sold (for example)implies a wrong on the part of him who owes, but withholds the price; a right to live… Continue Reading WRONG
WAIVER OF TORT
the action of a plaintiff to give up the right to sue a person based on a wrong committed but to obtain redress and satisfaction for his claim.
TRESPASS
Any misfeasance or act of one man whereby another is injuriously treated or damnified. 3 Bl. Comm. 208. An injury or misfeasance to the person, property, or rights of another person, done with force and violence, either actual or implied in law. See Grunson v. State, 89 Ind. 530, 46 Am. Rep. 178; Southern Ity.… Continue Reading TRESPASS
SUBSTANTIVE LAW
That part of the law which the courts are established to administer, as opposed to the rules according to which the substantive law Itself is administered. That part of the law which creates, defines, and regulates rights, as opposed to adjective or remedial law, which prescribes the method of enforcing rights or obtaining redress for… Continue Reading SUBSTANTIVE LAW
STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS
Time frame set by legislation where affected parties need to take action to enforce rights or seek redress after injury or damage.
RIGHT OF HABITATION
created by law and depend upon civilized society; or they are those which are plainly assured by natural law (Borden v. State, 11 Ark. 519, 44 Am. Dec. 217); or those which, by fair deduction from the present physical, moral, social, and religious characteristics of man, he must be invested with, and which he ought… Continue Reading RIGHT OF HABITATION
REPARATION
The redress of an injury ; amends for a wrong inflicted.
REMEDIABLE
the term that means something is able to be corrected. Redressed or rectified.
REMEDIAL
1. Affording a remedy; giving the means of obtaining redress. 2. Of the nature of a remedy; intended to remedy wrongs or abuses, abate faults, or supply defects. 3. Pertaining to or affecting the remedy, as distinguished from that which affects or modifies the right