Remedies Flashcards

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Are designed to compensate plaintiffs for harm they have suffered.

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Compensatory Remedies

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Most important compensatory remedy?

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Compensatory damages; a sum of money designed to make plaintiff well off as he would have been if he never had been wronged.

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Are designed to prevent harm before it happens, so that the issue of compensation never arises

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Preventive remedies

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Two forms of preventive remedies?

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Declaratory and coercive

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Most important coercive remedy?

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Injunction

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What is an injunction?

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An order from a court to litigants ordering them to do or refrain from doing a specific thing

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Authoritatively resolve disputes about the parties rights, but they do not end in a direct order to a defendant

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Declaratory remedies

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Are designed to restore to plaintiff all that defendant gained at plaintiff’s expense.

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Restitutionary remedies

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Are designed to punish wrongdoers

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Punitive remedies

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10
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are designed in aid of other remedies

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Ancillary remedies

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First letter of alphabet

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a

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