Election of remedies - sustany/dvg GitHub Wiki

The act of choosing between inconsistent�remedies�allowed by law on the same set of facts, and its purpose is to prevent double recovery for a single wrong. For example, in the case of stealing, the plaintiff has to choose between returning the original goods and compensating the equivalent amount of money.

The election�of�remedies�doctrine is a doctrine of�estoppel�that provides a party who has two co-existing but inconsistent remedies and elects to pursue one remedy to a conclusion may not sue for the other remedy. Ordinarily, this doctrine applies only when a party has elected to pursue one remedy to its conclusion and then attempts to pursue a subsequent claim on a second inconsistent theory.

If the court finds that there is no inconsistency among multiple remedies;�for example, the remedy merely seeks further relief, then the doctrine is not applied.