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The legal principle of vicarious liability applies to hold one person liable for the actions of another when engaged in some form of joint or collective activity. For the civil law system, see vicarious liability. For liability attributed to a corporation, see corporate liability. For liability between joint principals, see common purpose.
Vicarious liability criminal - History.
Before the emergence of states which could bear the high costs of maintaining national policing and impartial court systems, local ...
Before the emergence of states which could bear the high costs of maintaining national policing and impartial court systems, local communities operated self-help systems to keep the peace and to enforce contracts. Until the thirteenth century, one of the institutions that emerged was an involuntary collective responsibility for the actions committed by one of the group. This was formalised into the community responsibility system (CRS) which was enforced by a fear of loss of community reputation and of retailiation by the injured comm ...
