Remediation - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: remediationelection of remedies
election of remedies 1 : the act of electing a remedy from those available for an injury 2 : the doctrine that a plaintiff who elects a remedy for his or her injury is barred from pursuing another remedy that is inconsistent with the one elected ...
exhaustion of remedies
exhaustion of remedies :a doctrine of civil and criminal procedure: a remedy cannot be sought in another forum (as a federal district court) until the remedies or claims have been exhausted in the forum having original jurisdiction (as a state court, tribal court, or administrative agency) compare primary jurisdiction at jurisdiction NOTE: The doctrine of exhaustion of remedies was first developed by judges in case law based on comity. It is used primarily in administrative law cases and federal habeas corpus cases, and it is now incorporated in the federal habeas corpus statute (section 2254 of title 28 of the U.S. Code). It may also be applied when an administrative agency has original jurisdiction over a claim. It is used in proceedings in tribal courts. ...
remediate
remediate : to make the target of remedial action [the commissioner of environmental protection…shall conduct remedial actions necessary to the pollution at or on the site "General Statutes of Connecticut"] ...
remediation
remediation 1 : the act or process of remedying 2 : the act or process of remediating ...
remedy
remedy pl: -dies : the means to enforce a right or to prevent or obtain redress for a wrong : the relief (as damages, restitution, specific performance, or an injunction) that may be given or ordered by a court or other tribunal for a wrong [if the contract is null and void, the is to rescind and to put the parties in the position in which they were prior to the attempted agreement "First Nat'l Mortgage Corp. v. The Manhattan Life Ins. Co., 360 So. 2d 264 (1978)"] [specific performance and other equitable remedies] rem·e·di·less adj vt -died -dy·ing : to provide or serve as a remedy for ...
Remedial
Affording a remedy intended for a remedy or for the removal or abatement of an evil as remedial treatment...
remediable
remediable : capable of being remedied re·me·di·a·bil·i·ty [-mē-dē-ə-bi-lə-tē] n ...
remedial
remedial 1 a : intended as or providing a remedy b : concerned with the correction, removal, or abatement of an evil, defect, or disease [ treatment of an inmate to improve behavior] [a workers' compensation claimant who received attention from a doctor] [ a statute correcting the previous law] 2 : of, relating to, or being a law enacted for the purpose of providing a method of enforcing an already existing substantive right : procedural ...
Cumulative remedy
Cumulative remedy, a second mode of procedure in addition to one already available: opposed to alter-native remedy...
Magic remedy
Magic remedy, includes a talisman, mantra, kavacha, and any other charm of any kind which is alleged to possess miraculous powers for or in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment or prevention of any disease in human beings or animals or for affecting or influencing in any way the structure or any organic function of the body of human beings or animals. [Drugs and Magic Remedies (Objectionable Advertisements) Act, 1954 (21 of 1954), s. 2(c)]...
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