What is the definition of a cause of action?
Manitoba, Canada
The following excerpt is from Hofer v Hofer, 2013 MBQB 197 (CanLII):
[10] Lord Diplock in Letang v. Cooper [1964] 2 ALL E.R. 929 et 934, defined a cause of action in the following rather concise and useful terms: “... is simply a factual situation, the existence of which entitles one person to obtain from a court a remedy against another person.”
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