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Civil remedy

   Also found in: Legal 0.04 sec.
(Law) that given to a person injured, by action, as opposed to a criminal prosecution.
See under Civil.

See also: Civil Remedy



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Neither city prosecutors nor the water quality officials who referred the case to them would say Tuesday why they sought such unusual criminal charges instead of a civil remedy.
Ash, it engaged in an unremarkable analysis, consistent with common law, concluding that no civil remedy would lie for violation of a particular federal criminal statute.
In John 77 Stephens, 905 F2d 667 (1990), the Second Circuit ruled that a taxpayer could claim a deductible loss for the return of embezzled funds to a corporation, because the restitution was to a private party and was a civil remedy ordered primarily to reimburse tire corporation's loss.
 
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