remedy

The means by which a right is enforced or the violation of a right is prevented, redressed, or compensated. Long Leaf Lumber, Inc. v. Svolos, La.App., 258 So.2d 121, 124.

The means employed to enforce a right or redress an injury, as distinguished from right, which is a well founded or acknowledged claim. Chelentis v. Luckenbach S. S. Co., 247 U.S. 372, 38 S.Ct. 501, 503, 62 L.Ed. 1171.

The rights given to a party by law or by contract which that party may exercise upon a default by the other contracting party, or upon the commission of a wrong (a tort) by another party. Remedy means any remedial right to which an aggrieved party is entitled with or without resort to a tribunal. "Rights" includes remedies. U.C.C. No. 1-201. That which relieves or cures a disease, including a medicine or remedial treatment.

See also adequate remedy

- administrative remedy

- alternative relief

- cause of action

- cumulative remedy

- extraordinary remedies

- inadequate remedy at law

- mutuality of remedy

- provisional remedy.

@ civil remedy

The remedy afforded by law to a private person in the civil courts in so far as his private and individual rights have been injured by a delict or crime; as distinguished from the remedy by criminal prosecution for the injury to the rights of the public.

@ equitable remedy

See equity

- injunction

- performance (specific performance)

- reformation.

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- extraordinary remedies (extraordinary)

- joinder of remedies (joinder).

@ legal remedy

A remedy available, under the particular circumstances of the case, in a court of law, as distinguished from a remedy available only in equity. Procedurally, this distinction is no longer generally relevant, for under Rules of Civil Procedure there is only one form of action known as a "civil action." Rule 2

Compare equity

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