Redress legislation deliberately avoided the word reparations in favor of restitution.

Evidence

The legislation did not mention the word reparations but rather spoke of “restitution to those individuals of Japanese ancestry who were interned.” … He explained that although the bill would provide for a restitution payment to each of the sixty thousand survivors—for losses that could never be repaid—the legislation was less about property than about honor and the government admitting its mistake. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 232

Categorization

• DEFINE: The word choice ‘restitution’ vs ‘reparations’ is a deliberate legal-architecture distinction Brown uses to frame her own accounting-based model.