Download or read book In Defense of Tort Law written by Thomas Koenig and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2003-10 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tort law is a good thing (whatever it is....).
Download or read book Prescription in Tort Law written by European Group on Tort Law and published by Principles of European Tort Law. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prescription is a major legal defence that bars civil actions after the expiry of the prescription period on the claim. This book thoroughly examines the law of 16 selected jurisdictions and extensively analyses in comparative perspective the elements of prescription, their interrelations, and the policy considerations (including economic analysis). While the book focuses on prescription of tort claims the analysis, comparisons and conclusions are most pertinent to most civil actions.
Download or read book Defences in Tort written by Andrew Dyson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first in a series of essay collections on defences in private law. It addresses defences to liability arising in tort. The essays range from those adopting a primarily doctrinal approach to others that examine the law from a more theoretical or historical perspective. Some essays focus on individual defences, while some are concerned with the links between defences, or with how defences relate to the structure of tort law as a whole. A number of the essays also draw upon concepts and literature that have been developed mainly in relation to the criminal law, and consider their application to tort law. The essays make several original contributions to this complex, important but neglected field of academic enquiry.
Download or read book Tort Law Principles in Practice written by James Underwood and published by Aspen Publishing. This book was released on 2018-03-30 with total page 1146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purchase of this ebook edition does not entitle you to receive access to the Connected eBook with Study Center on CasebookConnect. You will need to purchase a new print book to get access to the full experience, including: lifetime access to the online ebook with highlight, annotation, and search capabilities; practice questions from your favorite study aids; an outline tool and other helpful resources. Tort Law: Principles in Practice is an approachable and engaging casebook, with a variety of pedagogical features and tools to examine tort law doctrine and rules and their application in practice. Introductory text for each chapter, subsection, and cases frame the issues under discussion, aiding student comprehension. Key Features: Text boxes and photographs, sample pattern jury instructions, checklists, and end-of-chapter essay questions. Chapter Goals are listed at the beginning of each chapter to highlight the key areas of coverage and provide a checklist for students when reviewing material. New key cases (e.g., new cases dealing with “but-for” causation and cutting edge coverage of the seat-belt defense showing a recent trend toward acceptance of this defense). Expanded short practice problems after most cases.
Download or read book Tort Law written by Keith N. Hylton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-06 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tort Law: A Modern Perspective is an advanced yet accessible introduction to tort law for lawyers, law students, and others. Reflecting the way tort law is taught today, it explains the cases and legal doctrines commonly found in casebooks using modern ideas about public policy, economics, and philosophy. With an emphasis on policy rationales, Tort Law encourages readers to think critically about the justifications for legal doctrines. Although the topic of torts is specific, the conceptual approach should pay dividends to those who are interested broadly in regulatory policy and the role of law. Incorporating three decades of advancements in tort scholarship, Tort Law is the textbook for modern torts classrooms.
Download or read book The American Law of Torts written by Stuart M. Speiser and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 1190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Torts in a Nutshell written by Edward J. Kionka and published by West Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A clear, concise, current, and authoritative explanation of all of the most important U.S. tort law doctrines, including those covered in first-year torts courses in law schools. Coverage includes tort law origins and objectives; causation; strict liability; negligence liability and defenses; intentional tort liability and defenses; special liability rules (premises liability, products liability, employers, etc.); damages; tort and contract; immunities; wrongful death and survival; defamation; privacy; misrepresentation.
Download or read book Torts written by Edward J. Kionka and published by West Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text provides tools for a comprehensive and thorough understanding of tort law. It organizes tort law concepts in outline form so that students can see law context and relationships. Updated material includes coverage of comparative fault, products liability, medical and other professional negligence liability, retaliatory discharge, liability for activities causing only economic harm, statute of limitations and repose, causation (market share and enterprise liability, liability for reduced chance), and allocation of damages among tortfeasors. A text correlation chart, cross-references to leading casebooks on tort law, examples, Q&A, and a practice examination are also included.
Download or read book Tort Law Defences written by James Goudkamp and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-07-18 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The law of torts recognises many defences to liability. While some of these defences have been explored in detail, scant attention has been given to the theoretical foundations of defences generally. In particular, no serious attempt has been made to explain how defences relate to each other or to the torts to which they pertain. The goal of this book is to reduce the size of this substantial gap in our understanding of tort law. The principal way in which it attempts to do so is by developing a taxonomy of defences. The book shows that much can be learned about a given defence from the way in which it is classified. This book has been awarded Joint Second Prize for the 2014 Society of Legal Scholars Peter Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship.
Download or read book The Law of Torts written by Gleason Leonard Archer and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Economic Structure of Tort Law written by William M. Landes and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a lawyer and an economist, this is the first full-length economic study of tort law--the body of law that governs liability for accidents and for intentional wrongs such as battery and defamation. Landes and Posner propose that tort law is best understood as a system for achieving an efficient allocation of resources to safety--that, on the whole, rules and doctrines of tort law encourage the optimal investment in safety by potential injurers and potential victims. The book contains both a comprehensive description of the major doctrines of tort law and a series of formal economic models used to explore the economic properties of these doctrines. All the formal models are translated into simple commonsense terms so that the "math less" reader can follow the text without difficulty; legal jargon is also avoided, for the sake of economists and other readers not trained in the law. Although the primary focus is on explaining existing doctrines rather than on exploring their implementation by juries, insurance adjusters, and other "real world" actors, the book has obvious pertinence to the ongoing controversies over damage awards, insurance rates and availability, and reform of tort law-in fact it is an essential prerequisite to sound reform. Among other timely topics, the authors discuss punitive damage awards in products liability cases, the evolution of products liability law, and the problem of liability for "mass disaster" torts, such as might be produced by a nuclear accident. More generally, this book is an important contribution to the "law and economics" movement, the most exciting and controversial development in modern legal education and scholarship, and will become an obligatory reference for all who are concerned with the study of tort law.
Download or read book The Law of Torts written by Joseph W. Glannon and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both students and instructors will welcome the new edition of Joseph W. Glannon's the Law of Torts: Examples & Explanations . This popular study guide provides clear, engaging introductions To The principles of tort law, along with interesting examples that illustrate how the principles apply in typical cases. These distinctive characteristics earned the book its reputation for effectiveness: highly respected author, whose best-selling Civil Procedure: Examples & Explanations uniquely entertaining writing style that captures and holds student interest coverage of the standard topics from most Torts courses - intentional torts, negligence, causation, duty, damages, liability of multiple defendants, And The effect of the plaintiff's conduct three-chapter section on Taking a Torts Essay Exam supplies guidance, tips, and sample exam questions and answers the Third Edition introduces important new material: two new chapters on Products Liability, one on theories of recovery in strict products liability cases and one on common defenses to strict products liability claims completely updated text, with citations reflecting the most current law
Download or read book Tort Law written by Darrow Legal Darrow Legal Notes and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tort Law Summary Notes Designed specifically for the first year law student! Darrows Legal Notes is a law school outline covering the principles of Torts from one of the biggest names in law school study aids. You've seen your classmates pore through them and soon you'll know why: Darrows Legal Notes are among the very best commercial legal study guides available. Torts topics covered include: Intentional Torts Against the Person: "Intent" Defined; Nominal and Punitive Damages; Scope of Liability; Battery; Assault; False Imprisonment; Mental Distress; Intentional Interference with Property: Land Trespass, Trespass to Chattles; Conversion Defenses to Intentional Torts: Consent, Self-Defense, Defense of Others, Defense of Property; Arrest; Authority of Law; Justification; Negligence Generally: Components; Unreasonable Risk; Reasonable Person; Rules Governing Behavior; Malpractice; Violation of Statutes; Jury Trials; Res Ipsa Loquitur; Actual & Proximate Cause: Causation in Fact, Foreseeability, Intervening Cause; Joint Tortfeasors: Liability, Satisfaction, Release, Contribution; Indemnity Duty: Failure to Act; Effect of Contract; Mental Suffering; Unborn Children; Pure Economic Loss Owners and Occupiers of Land: Outside Premises, Injuries on Premises, Trespassers, Licensees, Invitees; Rejection of Categories; Lessors & Lessees; Vendor & Vendees; Damages: Personal Injury, Punitive, Recovery by Spouse of Children Wrongful Death Actions; Defenses in Negligence Actions: Contributory, Comparative, Assumption of Risk, Immunities; Vicarious Liability: Employer-Employee, Independent Contractors, Joint Enterprise; Strict Liability: Animals, Abnormally Dangerous Activities, Limitations on Strict Liablity; Worker's Compensation; Products Liability: Negligence, Warranty, Strict Liability, Duty to Warn, Designer Defects; Defenses; Statute of Limitations; Nuisance: Public, Private; Misrepresentation; Defamation. If you're looking for a study guide, we highly recommend the complete Darrows Legal Notes series! Don't get left behind.
Download or read book Business Law I Essentials written by MIRANDE. DE ASSIS VALBRUNE (RENEE. CARDELL, SUZANNE.) and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-27 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A less-expensive grayscale paperback version is available. Search for ISBN 9781680923018. Business Law I Essentials is a brief introductory textbook designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of courses on Business Law or the Legal Environment of Business. The concepts are presented in a streamlined manner, and cover the key concepts necessary to establish a strong foundation in the subject. The textbook follows a traditional approach to the study of business law. Each chapter contains learning objectives, explanatory narrative and concepts, references for further reading, and end-of-chapter questions. Business Law I Essentials may need to be supplemented with additional content, cases, or related materials, and is offered as a foundational resource that focuses on the baseline concepts, issues, and approaches.
Download or read book Comparative Negligence written by Victor E. Schwartz and published by MICHIE. This book was released on 1994 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comparative Negligence, Third Edition fully discusses a doctrine that has been a major force of change in tort law over the past 20 years. Since its initial publication in 1974, it has become the leading reference covering the interaction of comparative negligence with every relevant tort doctrine.
Download or read book Tort Suits Against Federal Contractors An Overview of the Legal Issues written by Vivian S. Chu and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report provides an overview of key legal issues that have been raised to date in recent tort suits against government contractors. Most of these issues pertain to jurisdiction, or the court's power over the parties or subject matter of the case. A number of cases are pending that could affect courts' treatment of the issues discussed here.
Download or read book Tort Law And Criminal Law And Contract Law written by Johnny Ch Lok and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-05 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (10)Strict liability torts and Vicarious liabilityStrict LiabilityStrict or absolute liability is the legal responsibility for damage or injury, even if the person found strictly liable was not at fault. In order to prove strict liability in tort, plaintiff needs to prove only that the tort happened and that the defendant was responsible for the act or omission. In the case of strict liability in the USA, neither good faith nor the fact that the defendant took all possible precautions is a valid defense. A common example of strict liability is imposing product liability in the case of defectively manufactured products.Strict liability applies especially in cases involving hazardous or dangerous activities.Generally, liability based on a tort only arises where the defendant either intended to cause harm to the plaintiff or in situations where the defendant is negligent. However, in some areas, liability can arise even when there is no intention to cause harm or negligence. For example, when a contractor uses dynamite which causes debris to be thrown onto the land of another and damages a landowner's house, the landowner may recover damages from the contractor even if the contractor was not negligent and did not intend to cause any harm. Basically, society is saying that the activity is so dangerous to the public that there must be liability. However, society is not going so far as to outlaw the activity.Example: Acme Construction Company was constructing a highway. It was necessary to blast rock with dynamite. The corporation's employees did this with the greatest of care. In spite of theirprecautions, some flying fragments of rock damaged a neighboring house. The owner of the house sued the corporation for damages. The corporation raised the defense that the owner was suing for tort damages and that such damages could not be imposed because the corporation had been free from fault. Was this defense valid? No. While ordinarily fault is the basis of tort liability, there are cases in which absolute liability is imposed on the actor. This means that when harm is caused, it is no defense that none was intended or that due care had been exercised to prevent the harm.Other examples of absolute liability situations would be harm caused by storage of flammable gas and explosives, factories which produce dangerous fumes or smoke in populated areas, and the production of nuclear material. Vicarious liability is the responsibility of the superior for the acts of their subordinate. It is the responsibility of a third party who has the right, ability or duty to control the activities of a violator.Typically liability flows from the relationship of master and servant. The relationship includes thepower to direct the servant in the execution of the duties of his/her employment, and to control theacts that no injury is done to third persons.An employer can be held vicariously liable for an employee's tortious act against the person orproperty of a third party in a transaction of the employer's business. If a negligent act is committed by an employee acting within the general scope of her or his employment, the employer will be held liable for damages. For example, if the driver of a gasoline delivery truck runs a red light on the way to a gas station and strikes another car, causing injury, the gasoline delivery company will be responsible for the damage if the driver is found to be negligent.
