• An adequate remedy or adequate remedy at law is part of a legal remedy (either court-ordered or negotiated between the litigants) which the court deems...
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  • equitable remedies will not normally be granted where damages would be an adequate remedy. The most important limitation relating to equitable remedies is that...
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  • remedies Adequate remedy Civil remedy Cumulative remedy Civil and political rights Election of remedies Equity Equitable remedy Extraordinary remedy Habeas...
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  • is no other adequate remedy. However, a superior court always has the discretion to grant the writ even in the face of an alternative remedy (see May v...
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    Specific performance (category Judicial remedies)
    the circumstances. Such orders are granted when damages are not an adequate remedy and in some specific cases such as land (which is regarded as unique)...
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  • declaratory judgment is generally considered a statutory remedy and not an equitable remedy in the United States, and is thus not subject to equitable...
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    American Cyanamid Co v Ethicon Ltd (category English remedy case law)
    Whether damages were an adequate remedy for the claimant if an injunction was not granted. If damages would not be an adequate remedy, whether the claimant...
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  • Punitive damages (category Judicial remedies)
    are often awarded if compensatory damages are deemed to be an inadequate remedy by themselves. The court may impose them to prevent undercompensation of...
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  • contrast with damages (the law of compensation), restitution is a claim or remedy requiring a defendant to give up benefits wrongfully obtained. Liability...
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    for specific performance, which is an equitable remedy that requires the buyer have no adequate remedy at law. If the buyer is able to buy elsewhere and...
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  • Rectification (law) (category Judicial remedies)
    a remedy whereby a court orders a change in a written document to reflect what it ought to have said in the first place. It is an equitable remedy, and...
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    Tracing (law) (category Judicial remedies)
    Tracing is a legal process, not a remedy, by which a claimant demonstrates what has happened to his/her property, identifies its proceeds and those persons...
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  • Damages (category Judicial remedies)
    At common law, damages are a remedy in the form of a monetary award to be paid to a claimant as compensation for loss or injury. To warrant the award,...
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    Injunction (category Judicial remedies)
    requirement that an injunction can be given only when there is "no adequate remedy at law.") Injunctions are intended to make whole again someone whose...
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    the basis that (1) injunctions are a discretionary remedy, and (2) damages are an adequate remedy in the circumstances of the case. Suppose a homeowner...
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  • Distress damage feasant (category Judicial remedies)
    Distress damage feasant is a common law self-help legal remedy whereby a person who is in possession of land may impound a chattel which is wrongfully...
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  • Statutory damages (category Judicial remedies)
    damages for copyright infringement Bray, Samuel L. (2012). "Announcing Remedies". Cornell Law Review. 97: 753. SSRNĀ 1967184. "Fair Debt Collection Practices...
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    commercial property development, partly because compensation was not an adequate remedy. One consequence of this is that many developers now look to work with...
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    2) to provide 'a remedy where state law was inadequate'; and 3) to provide 'a federal remedy where the state remedy, though adequate in theory, was not...
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  • The purpose of a provisional remedy is the preservation of the status quo until final disposition of a matter can occur. Under United States law, FRCP...
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    an adequate remedy for a breach of contract, they may provide for specific performance or an injunction. Specific performance is an equitable remedy whereby...
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  • election of remedies is the situation in which a winning party in a lawsuit must choose the means by which its injury will be remedied. For example,...
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    availed of only if "there is no appeal, or any plain, speedy, and adequate remedy in the ordinary course of law."[j] However, notwithstanding the grant...
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  • Consequential damages (category Judicial remedies)
    that arise in contract law. When a contract is breached, the recognized remedy for an owner is recovery of damages that result directly from the breach...
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  • an injunction was inappropriate because the railroads could get an adequate remedy by testing the statute in the courts. The Court noted that the railroads...
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  • Treble damages (category Judicial remedies)
    (1987) (U.S. Supreme Court): Both RICO and the Clayton Act are designed to remedy economic injury by providing for the recovery of treble damages, costs,...
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    necessary that the Colonization Society should be or claim to be an adequate remedy for slavery. Her great and primary object, is the emancipation of Africa...
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    Code provides that the Court shall not hear any matters for which an adequate remedy exists at law or which can be heard by any other Delaware court. As...
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  • unusual situation in which no adequate remedy is provided by law. Moreover, when habeas corpus affords a proper and complete remedy the writ of coram nobis...
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    Liquidated damages (category Judicial remedies)
    and the inconvenience or nonfeasibility of otherwise obtaining an adequate remedy. A term fixing unreasonably large liquidated damages is void as a penalty...
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