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Chapter 7. Remedies
Chapter 7. Remedies
Chapter 7. Remedies
) C J Rawandale
Professor, Symbiosis Law School, NOIDA
Judicial Remedies Extra-Judicial Remedies
• Abatement of Nuisance
DAMAGES
§ Damages represent the pecuniar y recompense
recoverable by process of law, by a person who has
sustained an injury through the wrongful act or omission Legal Remedies
of another.
§ Object: To place the injured party in the position which
he would have occupied; if the wrong had not been
committed.
§ Damages are divided into General Damages and Special
Damages. These damages can be further subdivided into
Pecuniary and Non-Pecuniary damages.
§ Livingstone v. Rawyords Coad Co.,(1880) 5 App. Cas 25
§ Prospective Damages
§ Damages which are awarded by the Court to the
plaintiff not by way of compensation but by way of
recognition of some legal rights of plaintiff which
the defendant has infringed are nominal damages.
Types of Damages
Types of Injunction
§ Illustration: Pulling down a wall which causes
obstruction to the plaintiff’s right of light.
SPECIFIC
RESTITUTION OF PROPERTIES
§ When one is wrongfully dispossessed of his movable
or immovable property, the court may order that the
specific property should be restored back to the
plaintiff.