Redress vs. Restitution — What's the Difference?

Remedy or compensation for a wrong or grievance

The law of restitution is the law of gains-based recovery, in which a court orders the defendant to give up his gains to the claimant. It should be contrasted with the law of compensation, the law of loss-based recovery, in which a court orders the defendant to pay the claimant for their loss.

Remedy or set right (an undesirable or unfair situation)

The act of restoring to the rightful owner something that has been taken away, lost, or surrendered.

Set upright again

The act of making good or compensating for loss, damage, or injury; indemnification.

To set right (an undesirable situation, for example); remedy or rectify.

A return to or restoration of a previous state or position.

To make amends to

(legal) A process of compensation for losses.

Satisfaction for wrong or injury; reparation.

The act of making good or compensating for loss or injury.

The act of redressing; rectification or reformation.

A return or restoration to a previous condition or position.

To put in order again; to set right; to revise.

That which is offered or given in return for what has been lost, injured, or destroyed; compensation.

To set right (a wrong); to repair, (an injury); to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from.

(medicine) The movement of rotation which usually occurs in childbirth after the head has been delivered, and which causes the latter to point towards the side to which it was directed at the beginning of labour.

To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon.

The act of restoring anything to its rightful owner, or of making good, or of giving an equivalent for any loss, damage, or injury; indemnification.

To put upright again; to restore.

That which is offered or given in return for what has been lost, injured, or destroved; compensation.

To dress again.

The act of returning to, or recovering, a former state; as, the restitution of an elastic body.

(film) To redecorate a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set.

The movement of rotetion which usually occurs in childbirth after the head has been delivered, and which causes the latter to point towards the side to which it was directed at the beginning of labor.

The act of redressing; a making right; amendment; correction; reformation.

A sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury

A setting right, as of injury, oppression, or wrong, such as the redress of grievances; hence, indemnification; relief; remedy; reparation.

The act of restoring something to its original state

One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser.

Getting something back again;

(film) The redecoration of a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set.

To dress again.

To put in order again; to set right; to emend; to revise.

To set right, as a wrong; to repair, as an injury; to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from.

To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon.

The act of redressing; a making right; reformation; correction; amendment.

A setting right, as of wrong, injury, or opression; as, the redress of grievances; hence, relief; remedy; reparation; indemnification.

One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser.

A sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury

Act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil

Make reparations or amends for;