Legal relief refers to the activities in which citizens, legal persons or other organizations think that their personal rights and property rights have been violated by the administrative actions of administrative organs or the actions of other units and individuals, and complain to the state organs that have the right to accept them according to law, demanding solutions and relief, and the relevant state organs will accept them and make them legally effective.

The main ways of legal relief are: administrative reconsideration, administrative ruling, state compensation and civil litigation.

Extended data

Administrative reconsideration has the following four characteristics:

1. The person who files an administrative reconsideration must be a citizen, legal person and other organization who thinks that the administrative organ's behavior in exercising its functions and powers infringes upon its legitimate rights and interests.

2. When a party files an administrative reconsideration, it must be after the administrative organ makes an administrative decision. If the administrative organ has not made a decision, there is no question of reconsideration. The task of reconsideration is to solve administrative disputes, not civil or other disputes.

3. If a party refuses to accept the administrative decision of an administrative organ, he can only apply for reconsideration to the administrative organ with the right of administrative reconsideration according to law.

4, administrative reconsideration, mainly written examination, administrative reconsideration decision once served, that is, with legal effect. As long as the law does not stipulate that the reconsideration decision is final, if a party refuses to accept the reconsideration decision, he can still bring a lawsuit to the people's court in accordance with the provisions of the Administrative Procedure Law.