There are also civil law remedies such as injunction and the award of damages which may include a penal element.

Common law remedies include damages aimed at putting the plaintiff in the position he would have occupied had the infringement not occurred.

Passing off is a common law remedy for protecting an unregistered trademark.

Holmes noted that a common law remedy for a stevedore injured while loading a ship had been sustained by the Court in a prior decision.

Damages for breach of contract is a common law remedy, available as of right.

The civil law remedy was solely of a retroactive and compensatory character.

Federal law on insider dealing has become so well developed that recourse to common law remedies need only be had in exceptional circumstances.

In the UK, insider dealing was originally left to common law remedies.

Moreover, once the elements of theft are satisfied, it does not matter that the victim has no civil law remedy.

Female plaintiffs had always been able to sue for offensive sexual actions in the workplace by using the common law remedies of tort and contract.