An irreparable injury is a concept from equity, and the source article quotes it as the type of harm which no monetary compensation can cure or put conditions back the way they were. The idea matters because equitable remedies are generally reserved for situations in which an award of money would not be an adequate answer to the wrong. Where the harm is of a kind that cannot be undone or compensated in damages, a court sitting in equity may be asked to step in before or instead of a damages award. The article is brief, so this entry records the definition and its equitable setting only and does not describe particular tests or jurisdictions beyond what the lead section states.
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1. Wikipedia: Irreparable injury
in equity, the type of harm which no monetary compensation can cureView the Source Irreparable injury (Wikipedia)
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An irreparable injury is, in equity, "the type of harm which no monetary compensation can cure or put conditions back the way they were."
In Group: Equity, Trusts and Fiduciary Doctrines, Introduction, sentence 1
An irreparable injury is, in equity, "the type of harm which no monetary compensation can cure or put conditions back the way they were."
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