Remedies Flashcards
Topics? (2)
(Legal Remedies - Damages & Restitution)
- Contracts
- Torts
Topics? (2)
(Legal Remedies - Damages & Restitution: Contracts)
- Legal Damages
- Restitutionary Remedies
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(Legal Remedies - Damages & Restitution: Contracts: Legal Damages)
- Compensatory Damages = Expectation Interest
- Measure
- Requirements
- Causation Foreseeability
- Certainty
- Unavoidable (Duty to Mitigate)
- Consequential Damages
- Naturally Arose From Breach
- Nominal Damages
- Punitive Damages
- Exception: Characterize Breach as Tort
- Liquidated Damages Clause
- Requirements
- Actual Damages Difficult to Estimate
- Reasonable Forecast
- Cannot Be a Penalty
- Either Or Liquidated Damages Clauses = INVALID
- Requirements
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(Legal Remedies - Damages & Restitution: Contracts: Restitutionary Remedies)
- Quasi-Contract
- Unenforceable Contract
- Value of Benefit Conferred
- Not Limited to Contract Rate
- Recovery of Property
- Property Unique, OR
- Defendant Insolvent
- Material Breach
- Nonbreaching Party = Value of Benefit Conferred
- Not Limited to Contract Rate
- Recovery of Property
- Property Unique, OR
- Defendant Insolvent
- Breaching Party
- Common Law = NO
- Modern Trend = Value of Benefit Conferred - Damages
- Limited to Contract Rate
- Unenforceable Contract
Topics?
(Legal Remedies - Damages & Restitution: Torts)
- Legal Remedies
- Restitutionary Remedies = Unjust Enrichment
Topics? (3)
(Legal Remedies - Damages & Restitution: Torts: Legal Remedies)
- Compensatory Damages
- Nominal Damages
- Punitive
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(Legal Remedies - Damages & Restitution: Torts: Legal Remedies: Compensatory Damages)
- Requirements
- Actual Cuase = But For Test
- Proximate Cause = Foreseeability
- Exception: Egg-Shell Plaintiff
- Certainty
- Past Damages
- Future Damages
- Special Damages = Yes
- General Damages = NO
- Unavoidable = Duty to Mitigate
- Calculation of Compensatory Damages
- Lump Sum Payment
- Must Discount to Present Value
- Inflation Irrelevant
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(Legal Remedies - Damages & Restitution: Torts: Legal Remedies: Punitive Damages)
- Requirements
- Attached to Compensatory, Nominal, or Restitutionary Damages
- Wanton, Willful, or Malicious Conduct
- Constitutional Limitations
- Must be relatively proportionate to Actual Damages
- Single Digit Ratio
- Must be relatively proportionate to Actual Damages
Topics? (2)
(Legal Remedies - Damages & Restitution: Torts: Restitutionary Remedies = Unjust Enrichment: Legal Restitutionary Remedies)
- Replevin = Personal Property
- Ejectment = Real Property
Topics? (2)
(Legal Remedies - Damages & Restitution: Torts: Restitutionary Remedies = Unjust Enrichment)
- Calculation = Reasonable Value Conferred to the Defendant
- Legal Restitutionary Remedies
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(Legal Remedies - Damages & Restitution: Torts: Restitutionary Remedies = Unjust Enrichment: Legal Restitutionary Remedies: Replevin = Personal Property)
- Elements
- Right to Possession
- Wrongful Withholding
- Timing = Available Before Trial
- Plaintiff Must Post Bond
- Defenant Can Defeat Right by Posting Redelivery Bond
- Damages
- Recovery
- Compensatory
- Restitutionary
- Subsequent Bona Fide Purchaser Cuts Off Right of Replevin
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(Legal Remedies - Damages & Restitution: Torts: Restitutionary Remedies = Unjust Enrichment: Legal Restitutionary Remedies: Ejectment = Real Property)
- Elements
- Right to Possession
- Wrongful Withholding & Possession
- Damages
- Recovery
- Compensatory
- Restitutionary
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(Equitable Remedies for Torts: Equitable Restitutionary Remedies)
- Requirements
- Legal Remedies Inadequate
- Defendant Has Wrongfully Acquired Title to Property
- Constructive Trust
- Use When?
- Property Appreciates
- Property Solely Traceable
- Equitable Lien
- Use When?
- Property Depreciates
- Defendant’s Property Improved With Plaintiff’s Property
- Property Not Solely Traceable
- Deficiencyjudgment = Sale Proceeds < FMV
- Use When?
- Miscellaneous
- Tracing Permitted
- Plaintiff > Unsecured Creditor
- Exception: Deficiency Judgment
- Bona Fide Purchaser > Plaintiff
Types? (3)
(Equitable Remedies for Torts: Equitable Restitutionary Remedies: Injunctions)
- Permanent Injunction
- Preliminary Injunction
- Temporary Restraining Order (TRO)
Topics?
(Equitable Remedies for Torts: Equitable Restitutionary Remedies: Injunctions: Permanent Injunction)
- Elements
- Defenses
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(Equitable Remedies for Torts: Equitable Restitutionary Remedies: Injunctions: Permanent Injunction: Elements)
- Inadequate Legal Remedy
- Monetary Damages Inadequate
- Too Speculative
- Defendant Insolvent
- Irreparable Injury, OR
- Multiplicity of Litigation
- Replevin Unavailable
- Ejectment Unavailable
- Monetary Damages Inadequate
- Property Right or Protectable Personal Interest Requirement
- Traditional Rule = Property Right
- Modern Rule = Protectable Personal Interest
- Feasibility of Enforcement
- Negative Injunction = Enforcement Feasible
- Mandatory Injunction = Enforcement Problematic
- Great Taste, Skill or judgment = Unenforceable
- Series of Acts Over Period of Time = Unenforceable
- Out-of-State Action
- Resident Defendant = Enforceable
- Non-Resident Defendant = Unenforceable
- Balance of Hardship
- Minority View = Strict
- Exceptions
- Nuisance
- Trespass to Land
- Exceptions
- Majority View = More Liberal
- Gross Disparity = Monetary Damages
- Intentional Conduct = No Balancing
- Hardship to Public Also Considered
- Denial of Injunction = Monetary Damages
- Minority View = Strict
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(Equitable Remedies for Torts: Equitable Restitutionary Remedies: Injunctions: Permanent Injunction: Defenses)
- Laches
- Cause of Action Begins to Run When Plaintiff Has Knowledge of Injury
- Unclean Hands
- Maxims of Equity = One Who Comes Into Equity Must Come with Clean Hands
- Related to Subject Matter of Suit
- Freedom of Speech
- Defamation
- False Light
- Private Life
- Freedom of Association
- Sought Against Criminal Act
- Exception: Crime = Tort
- Sought Against Prosecution of a Crime = Irreparable Harm
- Exception: Criminal Statute Unconstitutional
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(Equitable Remedies for Torts: Equitable Restitutionary Remedies: Injunctions: Preliminary Injunction)
- Purpose = Preserve the Status Quo
- Elements
- Substantial Likelihood of Success
- Substantial Threat of Irreparable Harm or Injury
- Balance of Harms
- Bond Required
- Notice Required
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(Equitable Remedies for Torts: Equitable Restitutionary Remedies: Injunctions: TRO)
- Purpose = Preserve the Status Quo
- Elements
- Imminent & Irreparable Harm
- Necessary for Status Quo
- Maximum = 14 Days
- Bond Requirement
- Ex Parte Proceedings = OK
- Notice Not Required
- Adversarial Proceeding Not Required
Who are the parties bound? (3)
(Equitable Remedies for Torts: Equitable Restitutionary Remedies: Injunctions: Parties Bound)
- The Defendant
- Privies of the Parties with Notice
- 3rd Parties with Notice
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(Equitable Remedies for Torts: Equitable Restitutionary Remedies: Injunctions: Enforcement of Injunctions)
- Civil Contempt = Coercion
- Fines
- Imprisonment
- Criminal Contempt = Punishment
- Fines
- Imprisonment
Topics? (2)
(Equitable Remedies for Contracts)
- Rescission
- Reformation
Topics? (3)
(Equitable Remedies for Contracts: Rescission)
- Grounds for Rescission
- Defenses
- Plaintiff’s Election of Remedies
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(Equitable Remedies for Contracts: Rescission: Grounds for Rescission)
- Mistake
- Unilateral Mistake = NO
- Exceptions
- Non-Mistaken Party Knows or Should Have Known of Mistake
- Modern Exception: Undue Hardship for Mistaken Party
- Exceptions
- Mutual Mistake = Both Parties are Mistaken
- Material Fact = Yes
- Collateral or Immaterial Fact = No
- Unilateral Mistake = NO
- Misrepresentation = Yes if Actual Reliance
- Undue Influence
- Lack of Capacity
- Lack of Consideration
- Coercion
- IllegaIity