How have courts defined a cause of action?
Manitoba, Canada
The following excerpt is from Claeys v Her Majesty et al, 2013 MBQB 313 (CanLII):
[22] Lord Diplock in Letang v. Cooper [1964] 2 ALL E.R. 929 at 934 defined a cause of action: “... is simply a factual situation, the existence of which entitles one person to obtain from the court a remedy against another person.”
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