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Impeachment was never intended to be a remedy for private wrongs.

Elected officials are no more qualified than ordinary voters to assess the private wrongs of public officeholders.

Torts Civil or private wrongs (as opposed to criminal offenses) committed by perpetrators against victims.

Impeachment is not a remedy for private wrongs; it's a method of removing someone whose continued presence in office would cause grave danger to the nation.

Of Private Wrongs dealt with torts as they existed in Blackstone's time.

Will the House now have license to engage in free-wheeling speculation about how a President's private wrongs bear upon his or her capacity to govern?

There is a much stronger tradition in American society than in British of rectifying perceived private wrongs by means of litigation.

These were divided into two 14-lecture series, on "private wrongs" and "public wrongs" delivered between 12 February and 24 April.

President Clinton has made what I regard as grave mistakes of policy, and he may have done private wrongs that are the subject of so much innuendo.

The work is divided into four volumes, on the rights of persons, the rights of things, of private wrongs and of public wrongs.

Thus the Hellenic laws treated all forms of theft, assault, rape, and murder as private wrongs, and left action for enforcement up to the victims or their survivors.

Therefore it would seem that I have no right to pronounce any sentence against the Augusta Irene, and whatever may have been my private wrongs, I pronounce none.

Blackstone clearly labelled these as "Private Wrongs" in his commentaries, emphasising that property rights were enforced inter partes, and that the State was not necessarily one of the involved parties.

One of the envoys reportedly replied that Rome would make it her business to introduce better law among the Illyrians as "we have an excellent custom of punishing private wrongs by public revenge".

Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England, which was published in the late 18th century, contained a volume on "private wrongs" as torts and even used the word "tort" in a few places.

"Here, as in that case, the injunction operates, not to redress alleged private wrongs, but to suppress, on the basis of previous publications, distribution of literature 'of any kind' in a city of 18,000.

Therefore I give Saduko leave, and those people of the Amangwane who remain to him, to avenge their private wrongs upon Bangu if they can; and I give you leave, Macumazahn, to be of his party.

Public wrongs are called crimes or public offenses whereas private wrongs are called torts and either involve the breach of a duty of care, a wrongful trespass against the person or property of another and breaches of agreement or contract.

Not Gloucester's death, nor Hereford's banishment, Nor Gaunt's rebukes, nor England's private wrongs, Nor the prevention of poor Bolingbroke About his marriage, nor my own disgrace, Have ever made me sour my patient cheek Or bend one wrinkle on my sovereign's face.

Section 307 of the California Code of Civil Procedure is a typical example of how the forms of action were abolished in those states: "There is in this State but one form of civil actions for the enforcement or protection of private rights and the redress or prevention of private wrongs."