A civil wrong or wrong is a cause of action under civil law.
Types include tort, breach of contract and breach of trust.
[2] An 1860 legal ruling stated that: "It is essential to an action in tort that the act complained of should under the circumstances be legally wrongful as regards the party complaining; that is, it must prejudicially affect him in some legal right".
[6] The law of England recognised the concept of a wrong before it recognised the distinction between civil wrongs and crimes in the 13th century.
[7] This legal term article is a stub.