A cause of action or right of action, in law, is a set of facts sufficient to justify suing to obtain money or property, or to justify the enforcement...

decision may preclude re-litigation of the issue in a suit on a different cause of action involving a party to the first cause. As this court and other courts...

dominant theory of the relation between the intention and the behavior is causalism: driving the car is an action because it is caused by the agent's intention...

as a plaintiff with a civil cause of action to enforce certain laws or as a defendant in actions contesting the legality of the state's laws or seeking...

such provisions are typically part of their civil and criminal codes. The cause of action dictates the statute of limitations, which can be reduced or...

crimes may be torts, the cause of legal action in civil torts is not necessarily the result of criminal action. A victim of harm, commonly called the...

expansive inference of private remedies, first adopting a four part test which imposed some limits on inferring a private cause of action, and then shifting...

challenges the legal sufficiency of a cause of action in a complaint or of an affirmative defense in an answer. If a cause of action in a complaint does not state...

An abuse of process is the unjustified or unreasonable use of legal proceedings or process to further a cause of action by an applicant or plaintiff in...

death is a type of legal claim or cause of action against a person who can be held liable for a death. The claim is brought in a civil action, usually by...

claimant needs only to demonstrate a valid cause of action. The substantive law lay buried beneath the various actions: medieval practitioners and judges thought...

defendant's act must be an actual cause and a proximate cause of the result in a particular cause of action. Actual cause has historically been determined...

relevant allegations of fact that give rise to one or more legal causes of action along with a prayer for relief and sometimes a statement of damages claimed...

formal legal document that sets out the facts and legal reasons (see: cause of action) that the filing party or parties (the plaintiff(s)) believes are sufficient...

Medical malpractice is a legal cause of action that occurs when a medical or health care professional, through a negligent act or omission, deviates from...

causation in the law: cause-in-fact, and proximate (or legal) cause. Cause-in-fact is determined by the "but for" test: But for the action, the result would...

that the plaintiff must prove each element of the claim, or cause of action in order to recover. The cost of pursuing civil litigation has sometimes been...

property" of another gives cause of action for trespass. Since CompuServe Inc. v. Cyber Promotions, Inc., various courts have applied the principles of trespass...

that a cause and its effect can be of different kinds of entity. For example, in Aristotle's efficient causal explanation, an action can be a cause while...

Just Cause is an action-adventure video game series created by Avalanche Studios. Originally published by Eidos Interactive and after 2009 by Square Enix's...

class action, also known as a class action lawsuit, class suit, or representative action, is a type of lawsuit where one of the parties is a group of people...

as 'cause'. This peculiar, specialized, technical, usage of the word 'cause' is not that of everyday English language. Rather, the translation of Aristotle's...

(Second Cause of Action) is GRANTED, 2) Internet Archive's motion to dismiss Shell's counterclaim for breach of contract (Third Cause of Action) is DENIED;...

A civil wrong or wrong is a cause of action under civil law. Types include tort, breach of contract and breach of trust. Something that amounts to a civil...

issue of fact or law necessary to its judgment, that decision ... preclude[s] relitigation of the issue in a suit on a different cause of action involving...

Feigned action is an action brought on a pretended right, when the plaintiff has no true cause of action, for some illegal purpose. In a feigned action the...

Lost Cause of the Confederacy (or simply the Lost Cause) is an American pseudohistorical and historical negationist myth that claims the cause of the Confederate...

legislatively conferred cause of action. A statutory cause of action extends only to plaintiffs whose interests "fall within the zone of interests protected...

claims of malfeasance by America Online were barred by the statute, holding that Section 230 "creates a federal immunity to any cause of action that would...

starts from the date of accrual of the cause of action or (if later) knowledge of the potential cause of action. Summary offences: normally 6 months but...