election of remedies

election of remedies
The choosing between two or more different and co-existing modes of procedure and relief allowed by law on the same state of facts. Mansfield v Pickwick Stages, 191 Cal 129, 215 P 389. The doctrine, not a rule of substantive law but a technical rule of procedure, that the adoption, by an unequivocal act, of one of two or more inconsistent remedial rights has the effect of precluding a resort to the others. Arzuaga v Gonzalez (CA1 Puerto Rico) 239 F 60.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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