specific relief

  • 1Specific performance — is an order of a court which requires a party to perform a specific act, usually what is stated in a contract. It is an alternative to award/ for awarding damages, and is classed as an equitable remedy commonly used in the form of injunctive… …

    Wikipedia

  • 2Relief airport — is used to describe any airport that is built or designated to provide relief or additional capacity to an area when the primary commercial airport(s) reach capacity. In some cases a relief airport is an existing one that is designated to handle… …

    Wikipedia

  • 3relief — relief1 reliefless, adj. /ri leef /, n. 1. alleviation, ease, or deliverance through the removal of pain, distress, oppression, etc. 2. a means or thing that relieves pain, distress, anxiety, etc. 3. money, food, or other help given to those in… …

    Universalium

  • 4relief — Synonyms and related words: ADC, CYSP sculpture, Medicaid, Medicare, abatement, agent, aid, aid and comfort, alimony, allayment, alleviation, allotment, allowance, alterative, alternate, alternative, anaglyph, anaglyptics, anaglyptography,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 5Relief of General Douglas MacArthur — General of the Army MacArthur greets President Truman at the Wake Island Conference Contents …

    Wikipedia

  • 6relief — 1. Removal of pain or distress, physical or mental. 2. In dentistry, reduction or elimination of pressure from a specific area under a denture base. SEE ALSO …

    Medical dictionary

  • 7Specific Carbohydrate Diet — The Specific Carbohydrate Diet is a nutritional regimen that is promoted as treating a variety of chronic and auto immune disorders including Crohn s disease, ulcerative colitis, diverticulitis, coeliac disease, autism, cystic fibrosis,… …

    Wikipedia

  • 8specific — Synonyms and related words: absolute, aid, alterative, analeptic, assistance, balm, balsam, categorical, certain, characteristic, circumscribed, circumscript, classificational, classificatory, clean cut, clear cut, concrete, corrective, cure,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 9special relief — Specific relief prayed for in a complaint, bill, or petition in equity. 27 Am J2d Equity § 182 …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 10relief — The public or private assistance or support, pecuniary or otherwise, granted to indigent persons. Deliverance from oppression, wrong, or injustice. In this sense it is used as a general designation of the assistance, redress, or benefit which a… …

    Black's law dictionary