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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

cause of action in some common law countries in which the parents of a congenitally diseased child claim that their doctor failed to properly warn of...

Negligent entrustment is a cause of action in United States tort law which arises where one party ("the entrustor") is held liable for negligence because...

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...

claimant needs only to demonstrate a valid cause of action. The substantive law lay buried beneath the various actions: medieval practitioners and judges thought...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

defendant's act must be an actual cause and a proximate cause of the result in a particular cause of action. Actual cause has historically been determined...

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...

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...

grounds of his entitlement to relief requires more than labels and conclusions, and a formulaic recitation of the elements of a cause of action will not...

has undertaken", from Latin, assumere), or more fully, action in assumpsit, was a form of action at common law used to enforce what are now called obligations...

event, even if the potential cause of action cannot reasonably be discovered until a later date. In simple terms, a statute of limitations may start to run...