A cause of action or right of action, in law, is a set of facts sufficient to justify suing to obtain money or property, or to justify the enforcement...

dominant theory of the relation between the intention and the behavior is causalism: driving the car is an action because it is caused by the agent's intention...

decision may preclude re-litigation of the issue in a suit on a different cause of action involving a party to the first cause. As this court and other courts...

as a plaintiff with a civil cause of action to enforce certain laws or as a defendant in actions contesting the legality of the state's laws or seeking...

Citizens' Action Party, better known as Akbayan (lit. 'the escorting of each other' or 'the support for one another' or 'the collective putting of an arm...

such provisions are typically part of their civil and criminal codes. The cause of action dictates the statute of limitations, which can be reduced or...

death is a type of legal claim or cause of action against a person who can be held liable for a death. The claim is brought in a civil action, usually by...

formal legal document that sets out the facts and legal reasons (see: cause of action) that the filing party or parties (the plaintiff(s)) believes are sufficient...

An abuse of process is the unjustified or unreasonable use of legal proceedings or process to further a cause of action by an applicant or plaintiff in...

Medical malpractice is a legal cause of action that occurs when a medical or health care professional, through a negligent act or omission, deviates from...

challenges the legal sufficiency of a cause of action in a complaint or of an affirmative defense in an answer. If a cause of action in a complaint does not state...

relevant allegations of fact that give rise to one or more legal causes of action along with a prayer for relief and sometimes a statement of damages claimed...

that a cause and its effect can be of different kinds of entity. For example, in Aristotle's efficient causal explanation, an action can be a cause while...

that the plaintiff must prove each element of the claim, or cause of action in order to recover. The cost of pursuing civil litigation has sometimes been...

property" of another gives cause of action for trespass. Since CompuServe Inc. v. Cyber Promotions, Inc., various courts have applied the principles of trespass...

legislatively conferred cause of action. A statutory cause of action extends only to plaintiffs whose interests "fall within the zone of interests protected...

crimes may be torts, the cause of legal action in civil torts is not necessarily the result of criminal action. A victim of harm, commonly called the...

starts from the date of accrual of the cause of action or (if later) knowledge of the potential cause of action. Summary offences: normally 6 months but...

causation in the law: cause-in-fact, and proximate (or legal) cause. Cause-in-fact is determined by the "but for" test: But for the action, the result would...

essential element of the cause of action; generally speaking, a demand is required in two instances: to complete a cause of action; and where legislation...

of Canada held that alienation of affection and the related tort cause of action for "criminal conversation" was not available as a cause of action in...

filing of meritless motions in a matter which is otherwise a meritorious cause of action. Filing vexatious litigation is considered an abuse of the judicial...

Just Cause is an action-adventure video game series created by Avalanche Studios. Originally published by Eidos Interactive and after 2009 by Square Enix's...

(Second Cause of Action) is GRANTED, 2) Internet Archive's motion to dismiss Shell's counterclaim for breach of contract (Third Cause of Action) is DENIED;...

libera in causa (frequently abbreviated as a.l.i.c., Latin for "action free in its cause") is a law principle in a typical Western law system (both common...

four causes are the: material cause, the formal cause, the efficient cause, and the final cause. Aristotle wrote that "we do not have knowledge of a thing...

Lost Cause of the Confederacy, known simply as the Lost Cause, is an American pseudohistorical and historical negationist myth that argues the cause of the...

class action, also known as a class action lawsuit, class suit, or representative action, is a type of lawsuit where one of the parties is a group of people...

considered the "root cause" of a problem if removing it prevents the problem from recurring. Conversely, a "causal factor" is a contributing action that affects...

expansive inference of private remedies, first adopting a four part test which imposed some limits on inferring a private cause of action, and then shifting...