In law, a wrong can be a legal injury, which is any damage resulting from a violation of a legal right.

Toward the end of his book, he argues for expanding legal injury to include harm to the "spirit" and "soul."

"They have no legal injury because nothing has happened," Mr. Dellinger said.

Legal injuries are not limited to physical injuries.

Tort law - defines what a legal injury is and, therefore, whether a person may be held liable for an injury they have caused.

Legal injuries are not limited to physical injuries and may include emotional, economic, or reputational injuries as well as violations of privacy, property, or constitutional rights.

Unlike law courts, which heard actions for legal injuries compensable by monetary damages, Chancery courts heard actions having to do with wills and estates, or with the uses of private property.

As an exception to the general legal rule of standing, courts have held that qui tam relators are "partially assigned" a portion of the government's legal injury, thereby allowing relators to proceed with their suits.

Nonetheless, the case squarely presents the basic questions common to the full range of suits under the Alien Tort Statute: whether the law provides a basis for a federal court damage suit for violations of the "law of nations," and how to decide what sorts of legal injuries meet that definition.

A false representation of a matter of fact, whether by words or by conduct, by false or misleading allegations, or by conceal- ment of that which should be disclosed, which deceives and is intended to deceive another so that he shall act upon it to his legal injury.