Civil Remedy

In practice. The remedy which the party injured by the commission of a tortious act has by action against the party committing it, as distinguished from the proceeding by indictment, by which the wrongdoer is made to expiate the injury done to society.

The remedy which the party injured by the commission of a tortious act has by action against the party committing it, as distinguished from the proceeding by indictment, by which the wrongdoer is made to expiate the injury done to society. In cases of treason, felony, and some other of the graver offences, this private remedy is suspended, on grounds of public policy, until after the prosecution of the wrongdoer for the public wrong; 4 Bla. Com. 363; 12 East 409; Bell's Adm'r v. Troy, 35 Ala. 1S4. The law is otherwise in Massachusetts, except, perhaps, in case of felonies punishable with death; Boardman v. Gore, 15 Mass. 333; North Carolina, Smith v. Weaver, 1 N. C. 141; Ohio, Story v. Hammond, 4 Ohio 377; South Carolina, Robinson v. Culp, 3 Brev. 302; Mississippi, Newell v. Cowan, 30 Miss. 492; Tennessee, Ballew v. Alexander, 6 Humph. 433; Maine, Belknap v. Milliken, merged in the public punishment; 1 Chit. Pr. 10. See Injuries; Merger; Bish. Cr. L. § 207.

The remedy afforded by law to a private person in the civil courts in so far as his private and individual rights have been injured by a delict or crime; as distinguished from the remedy by criminal prosecution for the injury to the rights of the public.

Defined under Remedy in Black's Law Dictionary.

The remedy afforded by law to a private person in the civil courts in so far as his private and individual rights have been injured by a delict or crime; as distinguished from the remedy by eriminal prosecution for the injury to the rights of the public.