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Wrong, the privation of right, an injury, a designed or known detriment. See TORT, and Addison or Clerk and Lindsell on Torts.

The maxim that 'No man can take advantage of his own wrong' means that a man cannot enforce against another a right arising from his own breach of contract or breach of duty, Re London Celluloid Co., (1888) 39 Ch D 206, per Bowen, LJ.

An estate gained by wrong is always a fee simple. A squatter may, of course, be ejected before the Statute of Limitations has run in his favour, but as long as he remains he has seisin of the freehold to him and his heirs, 'because wrong is unlimited and revenues all that can be gotten and is not governed by terms of the estates, because it is not contained within rules': Hob. P. 323; Co. Litt. 181 a; Williams on Seisin, p. 7. But a squatter is bound by restrictive covenants affecting the land, Re Nisbet, (1906) 1 Ch 386.

In order to be a 'wrong' within the meaning of s. 23(1)(a) of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 the conduct alleged has to be something more than a mere disinclination to agree to an offer of reunion and must be misconduct serious enough to justify denial of the relief to which the husband or the wife is otherwise entitled, Dharmendra Kumar v. Usha Kumar, AIR 1977 SC 2218 (2219): (1977) 4 SCC 12: (1978) 1 SCR 315. [Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, s. 23(1) (a)]

The expression 'wrong' under s. 23(1)(a) of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 has to be something more than mere disinclination to agree to an officer of reunion, it must be misconduct serious enough to justify denial of the relief to which the husband or the wife is otherwise entitled, Saroj Rani v. Sudarshan Kumar Chadha, AIR 1984 SC 1562 (1564): (1984) 4 SCC 90: (1985) 1 SCR 303.

Breach of one's legal duty; violation of another's legal right, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1606.