Restitution vs. Reparation — What's the Difference?

A sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury

The act or process of making amends for a wrong.

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.

Something done or money paid to make amends or compensate for a wrong.

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

Reparations Compensation or remuneration, as for damage or economic loss, required from a nation defeated in war.

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

The act or process of repairing or the condition of being repaired.

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

A payment of time, effort or money to compensate for past transgression(s).

(legal) A process of compensation for losses.

(archaic) The act of renewing, restoring, etc., or the state of being renewed or repaired.

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

The act of renewing, restoring, etc., or the state of being renewed or repaired; as, the reparation of a bridge or of a highway; - in this sense, repair is oftener used.

A return or restoration to a previous condition or position.

The act of making amends or giving satisfaction or compensation for a wrong, injury, etc.; also, the thing done or given; amends; satisfaction; indemnity; -used, e.g. in the phrase make reparation, pay reparations, or make reparations.

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

Compensation (given or received) for an insult or injury;

(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.

(usually plural) compensation exacted from a defeated nation by the victors;

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.

The act of putting something in working order again

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

Something done or paid in expiation of a wrong;

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

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 restoring something to its original state

Getting something back again;