Private wrongs
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
The violation of public or private rights, when considered in reference, to the injury sustained by the individual, and consequently as subjecte for civil redress or compensatcm.
3 Steph. Comm. 356; Huntington v. Attrill, 146 U. S. 657 , 13 Sun. Ct. 224, 36 L. Ed. 1123 ; Tomlin v. Hildreth, 65 N. J. Law, 438, 47 Atl. 649.