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 :
In this case the condition of human agency and causality is satisfied, but yet the sufferer has no claim in torts.
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.
Several of these features are structural, and pertain to the nature of tort litigation.
Before that, tort law only allowed direct victims to initiate legal action against a polluter.
More problematic are historical tort practices that aim to restore property damaged by tortious conduct.
Moreover, one could readily extend this account to other forms of tort.
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.
However, the corrective practices of tort law do not aim directly or even indirectly at maintaining that background of distributive justice.
