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Costs and fees – These may include court costs, fees for supervision, payments for legal representation. They are imposed to help reimburse the state for costs incurred. Restitution – Victims may be awarded payments as a way to compensate them for losses, either through direct payments for individuals or through payments into a general fund ...
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 ...
The Board's Restitution and Recovery Program works to ensure that, where possible, perpetrators of violent crimes are ordered by the courts to pay restitution. The CalVCP program was the first program of its kind when it began in 1965, with the goal to help and provide financial assistance to victims of violent crime and those at threat of ...
Dye also agreed to pay restitution of $21,276.93 to the victim in the case. Judge Terri Kohlrieser said a fine is also mandatory, with the amount left up to the judge's discretion at the time of ...
Mayor's courts are state courts in Ohio created by some municipalities. Mayor's courts hear traffic cases, violations of city ordinances and other misdemeanors. The presiding officer is a magistrate (not a judge) appointed by the mayor, or even being the mayor, and paid by the city or village.
Truskowski said the jury convicted Owens on the three felony theft counts that totaled $37,986, while Barr argued the restitution was about $17,000 as Owens had performed work on the house and ...
Quattrochi, 55, of Steubenville, must pay a $1,000 fine and Pozderac, 59, of Carrollton, a $1,500 fine on top of restitution and court costs. They will serve three years on probation.
Where there is a "total failure of consideration" the claimant can seek restitution of the benefit by bringing an action in unjust enrichment against the defendant. Historically speaking, this was as a quasi-contractual claim known as an action for money had and received to the plaintiff's use for a consideration that wholly failed.