legal remedy
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a way of dealing with a difficult situation or solving a problem:
Fiscal, not monetary, policy should be the preferred remedy.
remedy for sthSenators have proposed hugely different remedies for the growing healthcare crisis.

Examples of remedy

remedy
The crucial point was the remedy, financial compensation, or reinstatement.
The treatment plan to remedy these maladies included oral and parenteral feedings, oral insulin, and wound care.
The correlation between social problem and administrative remedy is seldom exact.
Bilingual education, "diversity" programs, and affirmative action policies aim to do more than assure individual opportunity by remedying specific discriminatory acts.
There, as we saw, the plaintiff's right to remedy in some sense derived from the right in whose violation the defendant's breach of duty consisted.
The article concludes with a set of guidelines to anticipate and remedy those comprehension problems.
As this article has demonstrated, throughout the eighteenth century, there were legal remedies against wrongful confinement, however costly and difficult they were to obtain.
Invoking such remedies relied on positive law rather than the dangerous abstractions inherent in natural law theory.
The first remedy was one granted following a demonstration that a neighbour's property was so dilapidated as to threaten damage to one's own.
An alternative of extracting market premiums for good environmental practices has had only limited success and is difficult to apply universally to remedy general problems.
The same thing applies to the remedy, made with vegetable and animal components, the efficacy of which depends on respecting prohibitions and sacrificial prescriptions.
This paper seeks to remedy, at least in part, this neglect.
If new cases are continually introduced to remedy incompleteness, their number may grow unchecked.
Deprived of the powerful remedy of nuisance law, farmers were compelled to fight the issue out in terms of trespass.
In like manner, this proposal does not provide a remedy to excessive marketing expenditures.
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adequate remedy
The point here is the same: should an order for forfeiture be made when damages would be an adequate remedy?
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