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restitution

[res-ti-too-shuhn, -tyoo-] / ˌrɛs tɪˈtu ʃən, -ˈtju- /


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The lawsuit asked the court to order Kalshi to halt its operation, make restitution to customers, forfeit all illegal gains and pay fines equal to triple those gains.

From Barron's Jul. 31, 2026

Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, the authors write, tried to ensure that only “honest but unfortunate” debtors benefited from bankruptcy’s by directing “professional bankrupts . . . to restitution or jail.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 27, 2026

A judge also ordered Tran to pay $1,200 in restitution to Progressive Insurance and just over $3,000 to Bill Jacobsen Trucking, according to the district attorney’s office.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 11, 2026

What is needed is a social dividend to all humanity, not as redistribution but as restitution.

From MarketWatch Jul. 6, 2026

“Ms. Grayson’s apologized and agreed to pay restitution, Mr. Tuttle,” Aston said.

From "The Stars Beneath Our Feet" by David Barclay Moore

"It must be ensured that there is also a state-of-the-art procedure for future private restitutions."

From BBC Apr. 23, 2024

Under the court settlement, precious metals dealer Argent Asset Group and First State Depository Company, which were both owned by Mr Higgins, were ordered to make restitutions of $112.7m and pay a penalty of $33m.

From BBC Jul. 4, 2023

Hicks, who spoke alongside Osanna at the restitution conference, has argued that anthropological museums today must now become the public spaces to debate problematic collections, while permitting also case-by-case restitutions.

From Seattle Times May 9, 2023

It has also undertaken two high-profile restitutions from its colonial past: In 2005, Italy returned to Ethiopia the massive, 160-ton Axum Obelisk, which Mussolini ordered sent to Rome in 1937 after his troops overran Ethiopia.

From Seattle Times May 9, 2023

From these restitutions he gave pensions to whomsoever he wished, and took such part as he chose for his own house.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 08 of 55 1591-1593 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by James Alexander Robertson




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