civil wrong

Thus, defamation as a civil wrong is adjudged based on different case laws and judgements given by different courts.

This is a newer version of the British Mandatory Civil Wrong Ordinance, 1944, P.G.

The adoption by the Knesset of "The Law to Prevent Harm to the State of Israel via Boycott" (generally known as the boycott law), makes it a compensable civil wrong to publicly encourage a boycott against the state of Israel, its institutions or any territory under its rule.

A tort is a civil wrong that affects private citizens and is not based on a breach of contract.

A tort is a civil wrong affecting private citizens that is not based on a breach of contract.

In fact, as the Talisman lawsuit itself points out, "there has never to date been a successful lawsuit alleging a civil wrong grounded in an extraterritorial violation of human rights" in Canada.

It is a civil wrong to publish a statement about an identifiable individual that is false and would tend to bring the individual into disrepute, odium, or contempt in the minds of right thinking Canadians.

The Bill would make forced marriage unlawful and a civil wrong, and give victims a new right to seek an injunction from the civil courts, ordering that actions must not take place that will lead to such a marriage.

When stripped of its contentiously political stripes, a tort is merely a civil wrong. And what is a civil wrong?

Trespass is a tort - a civil wrong for which the landowner may seek redress through the civil courts.

The company went on to claim that the fine was necessary as AbFab was committing a civil wrong every time it sent out a spam message.

ELDER ABUSE IS BOTH A CRIME AND A CIVIL WRONG. In this context, elders are in need of "special protections" because they "may be confused, mentally or physically impaired, or incompetent and, therefore, less able to protect themselves, to understand or report criminal conduct or to testify in court proceedings on their own behalf.

She said the action would attempt to prove that a civil wrong had been done to the man, whose former partner had since remarried and moved to the north east since they split.