0 an action that is wrong but can be dealt with in a civil court rather than a criminal court
1 an act of injury or damage to a person or property that is covered by a law, so that the person can start a court action:
2 an action that is wrong but not criminal and so can be dealt with in a civil court :
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.
