{"id":11703,"date":"2017-12-28T05:43:32","date_gmt":"2017-12-28T05:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=11703"},"modified":"2017-12-28T05:43:32","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T05:43:32","slug":"quia-timet-injunction-an-injunction-granted-to-prevent-an-action-that-has-been-threatened-but-has-not-yet-violated-the-plaintiffs-rights-or-interest","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/reunitethestates.org\/?page_id=11703","title":{"rendered":"Quia-Timet Injunction – an injunction granted to prevent an action that has been threatened but has not yet violated the plaintiff\u2019s rights or interest"},"content":{"rendered":"

quia-timet injunction<\/span>:<\/span>
\n<\/strong>[Latin \u201cbecause he fears\u201d]
\n(1913)<\/span><\/p>\n

1.<\/strong> An injunction<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>granted to prevent an action that has been threatened but has not yet violated the\u00a0plaintiff\u2019s rights.
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quia timet<\/span><\/em>:<\/span><\/strong>
\n[Latin \u201cbecause he fears”]<\/span>
\n(17c)<\/span><\/p>\n

1. A legal doctrine that allows a person to seek equitable relief from future probable harm to a <\/span>specific right or interest. <\/span><\/strong>[1]<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Excerpt from Charles Herman Kinnane’s A First Book on Anglo-American Law<\/em><\/a> (2d ed. 1952):<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cA second class of cases where equity courts act to prevent injury are known as \u2018quia timet\u2019 cases. The name comes from the two Latin words, once used when asking relief in this class of cases; the words mean, \u2018whereas he fears\u2019 that some injury will be inflicted in the future unles<\/span><\/strong>s the court of equity assists him in advance, the plaintiff asks the assistance of the court to do this, that, or the other thing with respect to the defendant.<\/span>\u201d<\/strong> [2]<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Excerpt from 27A Am. Jur. 2d Equity 593, at 581 (1996):<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cQuia timet<\/em> is the right to be protected against anticipated future injury that cannot be prevented by the present action. The doctrine of \u2018quia timet\u2019 permits equitable relief based on a concern over future probable injury to certain rights or interests, where anticipated future injury cannot be prevented by a present action at law, such as where there is a danger that a defense at law might be prejudiced or lost if not tried immediately.<\/span>\u201d<\/strong> [3]<\/span><\/p>\n

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[1]: Black’s Law Dictionary <\/a>Deluxe Tenth Edition<\/a><\/span><\/strong> by Henry Campbell Black, Editor in Chief Bryan A. Garner. ISBN: 978-0-314-61300-4<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

[2]: Charles Herman Kinnane, A First Book on Anglo-American Law<\/em><\/a> 648 (2d ed. 1952)<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

[3]:\u00a0\u00a0Ballantine’s Law Dictionary <\/a><\/span><\/strong>Legal Assistant Edition<\/a> <\/b><\/span><\/em>by Jack Ballantine\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>(James Arthur 1871-1949).\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/em>Doctored<\/span><\/a><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/em>by\u00a0Jack G. Handler,\u00a0J.D.<\/a>\u00a0\u00a9 1994 Delmar by Thomson Learning.\u00a0 ISBN 0-8273-4874-6.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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