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ARTICLES RELATED TO Tort - In general | | | |  Tort - In general: Encyclopedia II - Tort - In generalTort law is distinguished from the law of contract, the law of restitution, the law of equity and the criminal law. Contract law protects expectations arising from promises, restitution prevents unjust enrichment, equity seeks to ensure that people act properly in certain circumstances and criminal law punishes wrongs that are so severe (like murder) that the state has a direct interest in preventing them. Note that many wrongs can result in liability to both the state (as cr ...
See also:Tort, Tort - In general, Tort - Definition of a tort, Tort - Purposes of torts, Tort - Categories of torts, Tort - Intentional torts, Tort - Negligence, Tort - Nuisance, Tort - Strict liability, Tort - Torts and criminal law, Tort - Tort by legal jurisdiction Read more here: » Tort: Encyclopedia II - Tort - In general |
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| | | | Tort - In general: Encyclopedia II - Tort - Categories of torts Torts are generally categorized by two factors:
The level of intent that must be assessed against the tortfeasor, and
The interest affected by the tort.
Tort - Intentional torts.
Intentional torts are any intentional acts that are reasonably foreseeable to cause harm to an individual, and that do so. Intentional torts have several subcategories, including torts against the person, property torts, dignitary torts, and economic torts.
Torts against the pers ...
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| | | | Tort - In general: Encyclopedia II - Tort - Torts and criminal law In common law, many torts originated in the criminal law. As noted above, there is still some overlap between crime and tort. For example, in English law an assault is both a crime and a tort (a form of trespass to the person).
The difference between the two is that tort allows a person, usually the victim, (the 'plaintiff' or 'claimant' in English law) to obtain a remedy that serves their own purposes (for example by the payment of damages to a person injured in a car accident, or the obtaining of injunctive relief to stop a person i ...
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| | | | Tort - In general: Encyclopedia II - Tort - Purposes of torts The law of torts determines whether a loss that befalls one person should or should not be shifted to another person. Some of the consequences of injury or death, such as medical expenses incurred, can be made good by payment of damages. Damages may also be paid, for want of a better means of compensation, for non-pecuniary consequences, such as pain.
In "The Aims of the Law of Tort" (1951) Glanville Williams saw four possible bases on which different torts rested: appeasement, justice, deterrence and compensation. The law tends to em ...
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| | | | Tort - In general: Encyclopedia II - Tort - Definition of a tort In his famous treatise, Handbook of the Law of Torts, William Prosser defined "tort" as "a term applied to a miscellaneous and more or less unconnected group of civil wrongs other than breach of contract for which a court of law will afford a remedy in the form of an action for damages."
Besides damages, in a limited range of cases, tort law will tolerate self-help, for example, using reasonable force to expel a trespasser. Further, in the case of a continuing tort, or even where harm is merely threatened, the courts will sometimes grant an injunction t ...
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