Types of Causes of Action
Contracts, torts property, and unjust enrichment
Remedies for Contracts
Legal: damages - compensatory and consequential
Equitable: specific performance, rescission, declaratory relief, and reformation
Remedies for Torts
Legal” Damages, compensatory, consequential, and punitive
Equitable: injunctive
Remedies for Property
Usually arises in the form of a tort or a breach of contract, so treat the remedies as in either of those two categories.
Remedies for Unjust Enrichment
Restitutionary in nature.
Legal: replevin and ejectment
Equitable: imposition of a constructive trust or a resulting trust