Examples of tort

• Likewise, what was regarded as crime and what we would today label as tort was often equally unclear.

• Breese had drawn that principle into two extraordinary propositions that grounded the public tort duties of passengers squarely in terms of the technology of transport.

• The plaintiffdefendant structure of tort law is essential to it, not merely contingent.

• However, even if contracts generate deontological duties, this does not take us ver y far in accounting for the duties imposed by tort law.

• It resembles the difference between contributory negligence and assumption of risk as defenses in torts. 32.

• Against that backdrop, transaction rules should be enforced by, among other things, the mechanisms of tort law.

• The role of tort compensation schemes within libertarian, liberal egalitarian, and utilitarian theories of distributive justice is discussed.

• However, the corrective practices of tort law do not aim directly or even indirectly at maintaining that background of distributive justice.

• Instead, he took the case as an opportunity to declare an entirely new approach to thinking about common carriers, tort-based duties, and contracts generally.

• Moreover, one could readily extend this account to other forms of tort.

• More problematic are historical tort practices that aim to restore property damaged by tortious conduct.

• Before that, tort law only allowed direct victims to initiate legal action against a polluter.

• Several of these features are structural, and pertain to the nature of tort litigation.

• His research and publications are in the areas of torts, contracts, property, crime, the legal process, and the relationships among law, economics, and moral philosophy.

• In this case the condition of human agency and causality is satisfied, but yet the sufferer has no claim in torts.