A form of penal liability requiring full compensation of the injured person as an instrument for punishing the offender; compensation paid to the injured person for the full value of the loss (an amount that may far exceed the wrongdoer’s benefit). See RESTITUTION(4).
redress (ri-dresorree-dres), n. 1. Relief; remedy (money damages, as opposed to equitable relief, is the only redress available). [Cases: Damages 1, 3. C.J.S. Damages §§ 1–2, 4–7.] 2. A means of seeking relief or remedy (if the statute of limitations has run, the plaintiff is without redress). — redressable, adj. — redress (ri-dres), vb. penal