Affirmative Relief
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Affirmative Relief
Relief, benefit, or compensation that may be granted to the defendant in a judgment or decree in accordance with the facts established in his favor.
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Affirmative Relief
That relief granted a defendant in a situation in which “the defendant might maintain an action entirely independent of plaintiff’s claim, and which [claim] he might proceed to establish and recover even if plaintiff abandoned his cause of action , or failed to establish it. In other words, [defendant’s] answer must be in the nature of a [cross-claim], thereby rendering the action defendant’s as well as plaintiff’s.” 41 N.W. 656.
