Redress

i A setting right; reparation; relief against wrong; satisfaction for an injury done; remedy. The more effectually to accomplish the redress of private injuries, courts of justice are instituted to protect the weak from the insults of the strong, enforcing those laws by which rights are defined and wrongs prohibited. This remedy is had by application to the courts, that is, by civil suit or action. But private injuries may also be redressed: (1) by the act of the injured party, as in defense of self, child or parent; by the recaption of goods; by entry upon realty; by abating nuisances; by distraining animals doing damage; (2) by the joint act of the injured and the injuring parties, as in accord, and arbitration; (3) by operation of law, as in retainer, and remitter.- See Relief, 2; Remedy; Damages.