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  2. Legal remedy - Wikipedia

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    A legal remedy, also referred to as judicial relief or a judicial remedy, is the means with which a court of law, usually in the exercise of civil law jurisdiction, enforces a right, imposes a penalty, or makes another court order to impose its will in order to compensate for the harm of a wrongful act inflicted upon an individual.

  3. Equitable remedy - Wikipedia

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    The award of specific performance requires that the two following criteria must be satisfied: [9] (i) Common law damages must be an inadequate remedy. For instance, when damages for a breach of contract found in favour of a third party are an inadequate remedy. [10] (ii) No bars to equitable relief prevent specific performance. A bar to relief ...

  4. Glossary of economics - Wikipedia

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    Also called resource cost advantage. The ability of a party (whether an individual, firm, or country) to produce a greater quantity of a good, product, or service than competitors using the same amount of resources. absorption The total demand for all final marketed goods and services by all economic agents resident in an economy, regardless of the origin of the goods and services themselves ...

  5. Right to an effective remedy - Wikipedia

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    The right to an effective remedy has been invoked in cases of asylum seekers in which the right has been held to prevent a state from deporting an asylum seeker before adjudicating the seeker's application for asylum, and that upon rejection of an asylum claim, the claimant must have a practical ability to appeal by being granted sufficient time and access to legal representation.

  6. Reliance damages - Wikipedia

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    Reliance damages is the measure of compensation given to a person who suffered an economic harm for acting in reliance on a party who failed to fulfill their obligation. [1] If the injured party could go back in time, they should be indifferent to entering into the contract that would be breached and receiving the reliance damages as opposed to ...

  7. Exhaustion of remedies - Wikipedia

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    The doctrine was originally created by case law based on the principles of comity. In the United States , exhaustion of remedies is applied extensively in administrative law . Many cases are handled first by independent agencies of the United States government which have primary responsibility for cases involving the statutes or regulations ...

  8. Judicial economy - Wikipedia

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    Judicial economy or procedural economy [1] [2] [3] is the principle that the limited resources of the legal system or a given court should be conserved by the refusal to decide one or more claims raised in a case.

  9. Remedy - Wikipedia

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    Legal remedy, an action by a court of law to impose its will Remedial education , the act or process of correcting a fault or resolving a deficiency: e.g., remediation of a learning disability Remediation (Marxist theory) , a theory of media proposed by Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin