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Remedy
REMEDY The manner in which a right is enforced or satisfied by a court when some harm or injury, recognized by society as a wrongful act, is inflicted upon an individual. The law of remedies is concerned with the character and extent of relief to which an individual who has brought a legal action... Read more |
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Laches
LACHES A defense to an equitable action, that bars recovery by the plaintiff because of the plaintiff's undue delay in seeking relief. Laches is a defense to a proceeding in which a plaintiff seeks equitable relief. Cases in equity are distinguished from cases at law by the type of remedy, or... Read more |
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Exhaustion of Remedies
EXHAUSTION OF REMEDIES The exhaustion-of-remedies doctrine requires that procedures established by statute, common law, contract, or custom must be initiated and followed in certain cases before an aggrieved party may seek relief from the courts. After all other available remedies have been... Read more |
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echinacea
echinacea , popular herbal remedy, or botanical, believed to benefit the immune system. It is used especially to alleviate common colds and the flu. Several controlled studies using it as a cold medicine have failed to find any benefit from its use, but a 2007 review of 14 different studies said... Read more |
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Consent Decree
CONSENT DECREE A settlement of a lawsuit or criminal case in which a person or company agrees to take specific actions without admitting fault or guilt for the situation that led to the lawsuit. A consent decree is a settlement that is contained in a court order. The court orders injunctive... Read more |
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Tracing
TRACING An equitable remedy that allows persons to track their assets after they have been taken by fraud, misappropriation, or mistake. The remedy is also used in bankruptcy, commercial transactions, and property disputes in marital dissolution cases. Persons who have been victims of fraud,... Read more |
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Physician
Physicians Sources The Frontier.Medicine in early America was random, diverse, and unspecialized. University-trained medical practitioners were rare in the colonies. Most doctors were surgeons, apothecaries, or barbers educated under the apprenticeship system. They... Read more |
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internal medicine
internal medicine branch of medicine concerned with nonsurgical remedies for diseases of the internal organs. While the internist is trained to diagnose and treat all pathologies of the various internal organs and systems, he may specialize in a particular subbranch of the discipline, such as... Read more |
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Scientist Church of Christ
Church of Christ, Scientist Organization founded in 1879 by Mary Morse (Baker) Eddy (1821-1910) as the embodiment of the healing movement popularly known as Christian Science. As a young woman Eddy suffered from chronic health problems. Through the 1850s and 1860s she sought out various remedies... Read more |
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Santa Clara Pueblo v. Martinez
Santa Clara Pueblo v. Martinez, 436 U.S. 49 (1978), argued 29 Nov. 1977, decided 15 May 1978 by vote of 7 to 1; Marshall for the Court, White in dissent, Blackmun not participating. The 1968 Indian Civil Rights Act applied most of the guarantees of the federal Bill of Rights to Native American... Read more |
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