Legal principles

• Habeas corpus
• Damnum absque injuria, loss without injury
• Arm's length principle
• Sovereign immunity. The immunity of state officials or state entities to torts with respect to its subjects.

Examples

• Arranged marriages may leave the woman without legal recourse.
• Bookies and confidence tricksters rely on the mark being involved in illegal activity^{[clarification needed]} to block legal recourse.
• Victims of bullying may have legal recourse in the United States.
• The Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 purportedly leaves consumer groups without legal recourse.
• Diploma mills and essay mills employ various legal techniques to leave their customers without legal recourse.
• In termination of employment, an employee may have legal recourse to challenge such a termination in at-will presumption of employment in the United States.
• Victims of joke theft have little legal recourse, but have occasionally exacted their own vengeance.
• Lynchings
• Military tribunal
• Rumsfeld v. Padilla