Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
equitable tracing as a remedy for unjust enrichment; The two main equitable remedies are injunctions and specific performance, and in casual legal parlance references to equitable remedies are often expressed as referring to those two remedies alone. Injunctions may be mandatory (requiring a person to do something) or prohibitory (stopping them ...
The remedies available in a judicial review action are the prerogative orders – the mandatory order (formerly known as mandamus), prohibiting order (prohibition), quashing order , and order for review of detention (habeas corpus) – and the declaration, a form of equitable remedy. All these remedies that the High Court may grant are ...
Where a personal remedy is awarded, the defendant is ordered to pay the money value of the benefit received. This personal money award is the typical form of restitution ordered. Where a proprietary remedy is awarded, the court recognises (or declares) that the defendant has a beneficial or security interest in specific property of the ...
Specific performance is an equitable remedy in the law of contract, in which a court issues an order requiring a party to perform a specific act, such as to complete performance of a contract. [1] It is typically available in the sale of land law , but otherwise is not generally available if damages are an appropriate alternative.
In trust law, a constructive trust is an equitable remedy imposed by a court to benefit a party that has been wrongfully deprived of its rights due to either a person obtaining or holding a legal property right which they should not possess due to unjust enrichment or interference, or due to a breach of fiduciary duty, which is intercausative with unjust enrichment and/or property interference.
The Constitution of the Republic of Singapore [1] is the supreme law of the land. This is supported by Article 4 of the Constitution, which provides: This Constitution is the supreme law of the Republic of Singapore and any law enacted by the Legislature after the commencement of this Constitution which is inconsistent with this Constitution shall, to the extent of the inconsistency, be void.
The N.C. Supreme court heard arguments Nov. 1 in the case challenging removal of a downtown Asheville monument honoring a Confederate-era governor.
Rescission is an equitable remedy and is discretionary. [4] It is used as a synonym for termination at law. A court may decline to rescind a contract if one party has affirmed the contract by his action, [ 5 ] or a third party has acquired some rights or there has been substantial performance in implementing the contract.