Wrongfulness in United States

Wrongfulness 

Quality of being immoral as opposed to illegal. A wrongful act is not necessarily against the law, though one definition of justice is the congruence of law and morality.

While natural justice holds that all laws must also be moral that does not indicate that all morality is legislated. A thing may be immoral yet not illegal. In an injust state a law may even be immoral.

Wrongfulness can also be defined as conduct which fails to rise to the level of moral (as opposed to legal) responsibility that society demands of adult persons in possession of their faculties. Wrongfullnes is not alone sufficient to constitute a prima facie tort. While a negligent action is wrongful not all wrongful actions cause damages. Wrongfullness can be understood as a synonym for breach of one’s legal duty and thus would correspond to a finding of two of the necessary for elements of a  tort.