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"What's a tort? It's a wrong that a court is prepared to recognize, usually in the form of ordering the transfer of money ("damages") from the wrongdoer to the wronged. The court is usually alerted to wrong by the filing of a lawsuit: anyone can walk through the courthouse d...
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The MIT Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, Massachusetts : |
| Publication Dates: | [2022] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | Third edition. |
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The open casebook series
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"What's a tort? It's a wrong that a court is prepared to recognize, usually in the form of ordering the transfer of money ("damages") from the wrongdoer to the wronged. The court is usually alerted to wrong by the filing of a lawsuit: anyone can walk through the courthouse doors and, subject to the limits explored in civil procedure, call someone else (or, if a company, some-thing) to account. We'll discuss the sources that courts turn to in order to answer such questions. Rarely, in tort cases, are those sources the ones laypeople expect: statutes passed by legislatures. Without statutes to guide them, what are courts left with?"-- |
| Item Description: | "Harvard Law School" -- from cover. |
| Carrier Form: | 577 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780262543873 0262543877 |
| Index Number: | KF1250 |
| CLC: | D971.237 |
| Call Number: | D971.237/Z822/3rd ed. |
| Contents: | Introduction -- Assault and battery I -- Assault and battery II : intent and autonomy -- False imprisonment : taking care of others -- Defenses : overriding the choices of others -- Trespass to chattels : the limits of self-help -- Negligence : the standard of reasonable care -- Negligence : adjusting the standard? -- Res ipsa loquitur -- Negligence per se -- Duty I : introduction : action vs. inaction -- Duty II : duty to control others -- Duty III : governmental liability -- Duty IV : emotional and economic harm -- Causation -- Proximate cause -- Vicarious liability -- Strict liability -- Defenses I : contributory and comparative fault -- Defenses II : assumption of risk -- Products liability I : manufacturing defects -- Products liability II : design defect and warning -- Damages. |