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because wrong and right are contrasting terms. An 1860 legal ruling stated that: "It is essential to an action in tort that the act complained of should under the circumstances be legally wrongful as regards the party complaining; that is, it must prejudicially affect him in some legal right".
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recognised the concept of a wrong before it recognised the distinction between civil wrongs and
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The law that relates to civil wrongs is part of the branch of the law that is called the
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Index

Wrongful
Civil offence
Municipal offense
cause of action
tort
breach of contract
breach of trust
right
civil law
civil proceedings
civil offence
law of England
crimes
Civil penalty
Misconduct
Williams (1982)
Clerk (1989)
ER
Watkins (Respondent) v. Home Office (Appellants) and others
Williams (1982)
Williams (1982)
Williams (1982)
Phillips (1960)
Sweet & Maxwell
ISBN
9780421377608
Phillips, O. Hood
A First Book of English Law
Williams, Glanville
Learning the Law

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