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Civil recovery is the method in some legal systems employed to recover the proceeds of crime, instead of, or in addition to, criminal court proceedings. [1]Many retailers, or agents acting on their behalf, utilize civil recovery to recover the value of property (including intellectual property) obtained through unlawful conduct (i.e. theft, burglary, larceny, fraud etc.).
Restitution and unjust enrichment is the field of law relating to gains-based recovery. In contrast with damages (the law of compensation), restitution is a claim or remedy requiring a defendant to give up benefits wrongfully obtained. Liability for restitution is primarily governed by the "principle of unjust enrichment": A person who has been ...
While civil procedure, as opposed to criminal procedure, generally involves a dispute between two private citizens, civil forfeiture involves a dispute between law enforcement and property such as a pile of cash or a house or a boat, such that the thing is suspected of being involved in a crime. To get back the seized property, owners must ...
The assets that are forfeited for criminal and civil offenses are used "to put more cops on the street", according to former United States President George H. W. Bush. [27] [failed verification] The assets are dispersed among the law enforcement community for things such as paying the attorneys involved in the forfeiture case, police vehicles ...
Ejectment is a common law term for civil action to recover the possession of or title to land. [1] It replaced the old real actions and the various possessory assizes (denoting county-based pleas to local sittings of the courts) where boundary disputes often featured.
Under California law, insurers should advance 30% of the property limits up to $250,000 and four months of living expenses without having people file an itemized claim.
In some cases, law enforcement or the jail may be reluctant to share information. They may also deny public records because of ongoing litigation. In those cases, you can rely on court documents or records obtained through discovery, if a legal team is permitted to share them.
(The Center Square) – Real estate experts say California’s anti-price-gouging laws could make it impossible to rent out housing to the thousands of families displaced by the ongoing wildfires ...