legal remedy
Judicial corrective measure
A legal remedy is a court-ordered solution to compensate for a wrong or enforce a right.
The most common remedy is monetary damages, but remedies also include injunctions (orders to do or stop doing something), specific performance (requiring a party to fulfill a contract), and declaratory judgments.
The plaintiff sought a legal remedy for breach of contract.
When someone says they have no legal remedy, they mean the courts cannot or will not help them.
Compensation for injury
- settlementResolved dispute or colony
- restitutionRestoring what was lost
- reimbursementPayment for incurred expenses
- reparationCompensation for injury done
indemnity · payout · redress · monetary award · financial relief · punitive damages · back pay · pain and suffering
Court-ordered behavioral requirement
- rescissionFormal annulment of agreements
- reformationProcess of improving institutions
- disgorgementSurrender of ill-gotten gains
- restitutionRestoring what was lost
subrogation · replevin · chancery · rectification · tracing · marshaling
Binding judicial directive
- injunctionCourt-ordered behavioral requirement
- mandateFormal authoritative directive
- garnishmentCourt-ordered debt collection
- levyCompulsory government charge
attachment · seizure · foreclosure · repossession · contempt · writ of execution · asset freeze · receivership
Civil court proceeding
- complaintExpression of discontent
- summonsFormal court notification
- discoveryAct of finding something
- depositionFormal testimony under oath
subpoena · motion · brief · trial · verdict · appeal · cross-examination · pleading
Trial venue or sports surface
- judgeOne who decides
- rulingFormal legal determination
- judgmentReasoned decision-making capacity
- decreeAuthoritative legal command
opinion · adjudication · judicial review · due process · hearing · tribunal · appellate court · jurisdiction
damages
Compensation for injury
- settlementResolved dispute or colony
- restitutionRestoring what was lost
- reimbursementPayment for incurred expenses
reparation · indemnity · payout · redress · monetary award · financial relief · punitive damages · back pay · pain and suffering · lost wages
injunction
Court-ordered behavioral requirement
- rescissionFormal annulment of agreements
- reformationProcess of improving institutions
- disgorgementSurrender of ill-gotten gains
restitution · subrogation · replevin · chancery · rectification · tracing · marshaling
court order
Binding judicial directive
- injunctionCourt-ordered behavioral requirement
- mandateFormal authoritative directive
- garnishmentCourt-ordered debt collection
levy · attachment · seizure · foreclosure · repossession · contempt · writ of execution · asset freeze · receivership · cease and desist
lawsuit
Civil court proceeding
deposition · subpoena · motion · brief · trial · verdict · appeal · cross-examination · pleading · interrogatories
court
Trial venue or sports surface
decree · opinion · adjudication · judicial review · due process · hearing · tribunal · appellate court · jurisdiction · standing
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- Legal Optionsappeal, lawsuit, mediation, arbitration, litigation
- contract remediesrescission, punitive damages, money damages, restitution, lost profits
- German LawRichter, constitutional court, constitutional law, federal law, basic law
- legal remediesinjunctions, injunction, damages, restitution, restraining order
- tax courtstax court, tax hearing, tax appeal, tax case, tax dispute
legal remedyvigilante justice
Unauthorized punishment by civilians
taking the law into one's own hands · vigilantism · self-help · mob justice · frontier justice
legal remedyacquiescence
Unresisting acceptance
inaction · acceptance · resignation · forbearance · letting it go
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