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In two ways, however, the liability of an infant for civil wrongs is restricted.

General damages awards for personal injuries and other civil wrongs should be increased by 10%.

Thai lawyers have a very different role from their Western counterparts in dealing with civil wrongs and disputes.

Corporate violations have for too long been treated as civil wrongs, where a fine is considered the equivalent of a tax on misconduct.

Public liability is part of the law of tort which focuses on civil wrongs.

Punitive damages - awards over and above straight compensation for civil wrongs - have sometimes spun out of control.

Libel and slander are generally considered civil wrongs which can constitute the basis of a private lawsuit.

Punitive damages - awards over and above compensation for civil wrongs - can be outlandish, even arbitrary.

The law relating to civil wrongs and quasi-contracts is part of the civil law.

Although actions against the media for these civil wrongs have been rare in the past, they have two practical advantages for plaintiffs.

Torts, sometimes called delicts, are civil wrongs.

As such, there is no immunity for strikers or their organisers who commit other civil wrongs or criminal offences.

There are various kinds of civil wrongs, or Torts, which enable a person who has sustained an injury or loss to claim damages.

And so to end the habit of compulsive law-making, all new criminal offences and civil wrongs will now be specially screened.

English tort law concerns civil wrongs, as distinguished from criminal wrongs, in the law of England and Wales.

Professor Schuck, however, contends that the outcome shows that tort law, the centuries-old legal field intended to compensate victims for civil wrongs, is lacking.

The suit charges a battery of civil wrongs, including lack of informed consent, fraud, unjust enrichment and conversion - the civil-law equivalent of theft.

The law of England recognised the concept of a "wrong" before it recognised the distinction between civil wrongs and crimes (which distinction was developed during the thirteenth century).

It may also to refer to criminal offences or civil wrongs that include conduct which some people consider to be stalking, such as those described in law as "harassment" or similar terms.

There is a very close similarity between a breach of contract and a delict, in that both are civil wrongs and may give rise to a duty to pay damages as compensation.

If the Senate bill passes, it would mean that for the first time both houses of Congress have agreed to set nationwide standards in some lawsuits brought to recover damages for civil wrongs.

As passed there, it was a collection of devices aimed at making it harder for the victims of torts - civil wrongs - to win damages from manufacturers, doctors and other defendants.

The Senate should reject the entire package, which has been mislabeled "civil justice reform" but would cut off citizen access to the courts for millions of Americans seeking redress for civil wrongs.

Whether the archdiocese wins that bet will turn largely on whether it can take advantage of a Massachusetts law that caps the liability of charities for torts, or civil wrongs, at $20,000.

The event included presentations by the Rev. Jesse Jackson and a screening of the Emmy Award-winning film "Of Civil Wrongs and Rights: The Fred Korematsu Story."