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Corrective justice
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Corrective justiceA doctrine, inherent to the U.S. legal system, especially U.S. tort law. The American legal system is corrective in principle rather than distributive, attempting to correct each case individually by claims which may end in suit.
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Doctrine
A rule or principle or the law established through the repeated application of legal precedents.
Legal
That which is according to law. It is used in opposition to equitable, as the legal estate is, in the trustee, the equitable estate in the cestui que trust.
Tort
An injury; a wrong; hence the expression an executor de son tort, of his own wrong.
Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.
Each
Every one of the two or more composing the whole.
Case
1) Practice. A contested question before a court of justicea suit or action a cause. 2) An agreement in writing, between a plaintiff and defendant, that the facts in dispute between them are as there agreed upon and mentioned
Suit
An action. The word suit in the 25th section of the judiciary act of 1789, applies to any proceeding in a court of justice, in which the plaintiff pursues, in such court, the remedy which the law affords him. An application for a prohibition is therefore a suit.
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Corregidor
Spanish law. A magistrate who took cognizance of 'various misdemeanors and of civil matters.
Correlative
This term is used to designate those things, one of which cannot exist without another.
Correspondence
The letters written by one to another, and the answers thereto, make wbat is called the correspondence of the partie's.
Corroborating evidence
Supplementary evidence that tends to strengthen or confirm the initial evidence.
Corruption
An act done with an intent to give some advantage inconsistent with official duty and the rights of others.
Corruption of blood
English Criminal law. The incapacity to inherit, or pass an inheritance, in consequence of an attainder to which the party has been subject
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Corpus comitatus
The body of the county; the inhabitants or citizens of a whole county, used in contradistinction to a part of a county, or a part of its citizens
Corpus cum causa
Practice. The writ of habeas corpus cum causa is a writ commanding -the person to whom it is directed, to have the body, together with the cause for which he is committed, before the court or judge issuing the same.
Corpus delicti
The body of the offence; the essence of the crime
Corpus juris canonici
The body of the canon law. A compilation of the canon law bears this name.
Corpus juris civilis
The body of the civil law. This, is the name given to a collection of the civil law, consisting of Justinian's Institutes, the Pandects or Digest, the Code, and the Novels.
Corrective justice
Corregidor
Spanish law. A magistrate who took cognizance of 'various misdemeanors and of civil matters.
Correlative
This term is used to designate those things, one of which cannot exist without another.
Correspondence
The letters written by one to another, and the answers thereto, make wbat is called the correspondence of the partie's.
Corroborating evidence
Supplementary evidence that tends to strengthen or confirm the initial evidence.
Corruption
An act done with an intent to give some advantage inconsistent with official duty and the rights of others.
RELATED TERMS--------------------------------------
Doctrine
A rule or principle or the law established through the repeated application of legal precedents.
Legal
That which is according to law. It is used in opposition to equitable, as the legal estate is, in the trustee, the equitable estate in the cestui que trust.
Tort
An injury; a wrong; hence the expression an executor de son tort, of his own wrong.
Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.
Each
Every one of the two or more composing the whole.
Case
1) Practice. A contested question before a court of justicea suit or action a cause. 2) An agreement in writing, between a plaintiff and defendant, that the facts in dispute between them are as there agreed upon and mentioned
Suit
An action. The word suit in the 25th section of the judiciary act of 1789, applies to any proceeding in a court of justice, in which the plaintiff pursues, in such court, the remedy which the law affords him. An application for a prohibition is therefore a suit.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Corregidor
Spanish law. A magistrate who took cognizance of 'various misdemeanors and of civil matters.
Correlative
This term is used to designate those things, one of which cannot exist without another.
Correspondence
The letters written by one to another, and the answers thereto, make wbat is called the correspondence of the partie's.
Corroborating evidence
Supplementary evidence that tends to strengthen or confirm the initial evidence.
Corruption
An act done with an intent to give some advantage inconsistent with official duty and the rights of others.
Corruption of blood
English Criminal law. The incapacity to inherit, or pass an inheritance, in consequence of an attainder to which the party has been subject
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Corpus comitatus
The body of the county; the inhabitants or citizens of a whole county, used in contradistinction to a part of a county, or a part of its citizens
Corpus cum causa
Practice. The writ of habeas corpus cum causa is a writ commanding -the person to whom it is directed, to have the body, together with the cause for which he is committed, before the court or judge issuing the same.
Corpus delicti
The body of the offence; the essence of the crime
Corpus juris canonici
The body of the canon law. A compilation of the canon law bears this name.
Corpus juris civilis
The body of the civil law. This, is the name given to a collection of the civil law, consisting of Justinian's Institutes, the Pandects or Digest, the Code, and the Novels.
Corrective justice
Corregidor
Spanish law. A magistrate who took cognizance of 'various misdemeanors and of civil matters.
Correlative
This term is used to designate those things, one of which cannot exist without another.
Correspondence
The letters written by one to another, and the answers thereto, make wbat is called the correspondence of the partie's.
Corroborating evidence
Supplementary evidence that tends to strengthen or confirm the initial evidence.
Corruption
An act done with an intent to give some advantage inconsistent with official duty and the rights of others.
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