Granting diplomatic protection allows a state to seek reparations for injury to one of its citizens by another state, on the basis that it has committed an 'intentionally wrongful act'.

The idea that a wrongful act 'just isn't cricket' has passed into language.

The employer who has made compensation as specified in the preceding sentence may claim for reimbursement against the employee committed the wrongful act.

The essence of crime thus was the violation of a norm of positive law, rather than the commission of a wrongful act.

The plaintiff must further demonstrate that the person who made the remarks committed a wrongful act.

Mostly, they rest upon three basic prongsnamely unity of interest and ownership, wrongful conduct and proximate cause.

A year later there was a disciplinary charge for wrongful conduct at work.

The purpose of such damages are twofold: to deter wrongful conduct by other actors, and to serve a normative function of expressing social shock or outrage at the defendant's actions.