Private Law

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2 domain-specific abstractions whose origin domain is Private Law.

• Ex turpi causa non oritur actio — The illegality doctrine that can bar a claimant from obtaining a civil remedy founded on or sufficiently connected to the claimant's own unlawful conduct.
• Rectification (law) — An equitable remedy correcting a written instrument so it records the parties' legally established prior common intention.