A legal remedy (Latin remedium iuris, remedium contra sententias; French voie de recours; German Rechtsmittel) enables a party in a trial before a court of law to dispute a judgment; if a legal remedy is utilized, a higher instance reviews and decides the case anew. In broader usage until around the year 1850, a legal remedy covered all means of protecting or enforcing one’s rights, including lawsuits, appeals, complaints, petitions, and acts of restoration to a previous state…