Elements of Action
The action should be as briefly and simply written as possible. Before filing the action remember to apply Mark Twain's seven rules for good writing:
"Revise, revise, revise, revise, revise, revise, revise."
It takes seven major revisions to do a writing correctly. Write one sentence per paragraph.
Sentence format should be subject verb object.
Parties + Cause of action [Duty + Breach + Proximate Cause + Injury} + Damages + Execution
e.g. Contract: Contract + Breach + Injury
e.g. Advantage: Existance of Advantage & Knowlege of Advantage + Breach + Injury
e.g. Slander & Libel: Intentional Falsehood + Communicated to 3rd Party + Injury
In your action make the following points:
1. What the defendant is doing or not doing.
2. Your injuries (e.g. loss of substantive rights). (NOTICE! "Injury" and "damages" are NOT synonymous words. Injury is the harm done. Damages are the compensation for the injury.)
3. His duty to not cause you injury. The moral, public, and private laws that require him to not cause you injury (e.g. Ten Commandments; Bill of Rights, 18 USC Sec. 241, 242; 42 USC Sections 1983, 1985, 1986; and your own rules).
4. He is breaching that duty.
5. State the damages (what he owes you) for the injury.
6. Show that a demand was made and he has defaulted (Attach Notice & Demand as an exhibit)