"A tort is a civil wrong that causes a claimant to suffer loss or harm, resulting in legal liability for the person who commits the tortious act."
Covers laws related to civil wrongs, such as negligence, and product liability.
Introduction to Torts: An overview of what Torts are and their significance in civil law.
Types of Torts: Different categories of Torts like intentional Torts, negligence, and strict liability.
Elements of Torts: The necessary components of a Tort case, such as duty, breach, causation, and damages.
Causation: The relationship between a defendant's conduct and the harm suffered by the plaintiff.
Standard of Care: The duty of care that a defendant owes to the plaintiff to prevent harm from occurring.
Negligence: The legal concept of failing to exercise reasonable care that results in harm to another person.
Intentional Torts: Deliberate actions that cause harm or injury, such as battery, assault, defamation, and false imprisonment.
Strict Liability: The liability that arises from the dangerous or defective condition of a product or premises, which causes harm to the plaintiff.
Defenses to Torts: The various legal strategies that can be employed by defendants to defend themselves against Tort claims.
Damages: The types of damages that can be awarded in Tort cases such as compensatory, punitive, nominal, and liquidated damages.
Vicarious Liability: Liability for the actions of others, such as employers for the actions of their employees.
Proximate Cause: The legal concept of the direct connection between a defendant's actions and the injury suffered by the plaintiff.
Contributory Negligence: The legal doctrine that the plaintiff's own negligence contributed to their injury, and the damages should be reduced or eliminated.
Assumption of Risk: The legal concept that a plaintiff has voluntarily assumed the risk of injury by participating in a dangerous activity.
Sovereign Immunity: The legal principle that exempts the government and its entities from liability in Tort cases.
Battery: It is an intentional tort where one person touches or causes harm to another person's body without their consent.
Assault: This is another intentional tort where one person creates the fear of harm or injury to another person.
False imprisonment: It is an intentional tort where one person restricts the freedom of movement of another person against their will.
Defamation: This is a tort where someone intentionally causes injury to another person's reputation by making false statements.
Intentional infliction of emotional distress: It is a tort where one person intentionally causes severe emotional distress to another person.
Negligence: This is an unintentional tort where one person fails to exercise reasonable care that a reasonable person would exercise in similar circumstances, and causes harm or injury to another person.
Product liability: This is a tort where a manufacturer, seller, or supplier fails to warn consumers of potential hazards of a product or produces a defective product that causes harm or injury.
Nuisance: It is a tort where one person causes unreasonable and substantial interference with another person's use or enjoyment of their property.
Trespass: This is a tort where one person intentionally enters or remains on another person's property without consent.
Strict liability: This is a tort where one person is held liable for harm or injury caused to another person, even if the harm was unintentional and the person acted with due care.
Conversion: It is a tort where one person takes, uses, or damages another person's property without permission or legal right.
Fraud: This is a tort where one person intentionally misrepresents or conceals material facts to deceive another person.
Invasion of privacy: It is a tort where one person violates another person's right to privacy by intrusion, public disclosure of private facts, false light, or appropriation of name or likeness.
Interference with contractual relations: This is a tort where one person intentionally interferes with another person's contractual relations, causing harm or injury.
"While criminal law aims to punish individuals who commit crimes, tort law aims to compensate individuals who suffer harm as a result of the actions of others."
"Some wrongful acts, such as assault and battery, can result in both a civil lawsuit and a criminal prosecution in countries where the civil and criminal legal systems are separate."
"Tort law may also be contrasted with contract law, which provides civil remedies after breach of a duty that arises from a contract."
"While tort law in civil law jurisdictions largely derives from Roman law..."
"In common law jurisdictions, tort law derives from customary English tort law."
"Tort law is referred to as the law of delict in Scots and Roman Dutch law..."
"Rules regarding civil liability are established primarily by precedent and theory rather than an exhaustive code."
"A handful of jurisdictions have codified a mixture of common and civil law jurisprudence either due to their colonial past (e.g. Québec, St Lucia, Mauritius) or due to influence from multiple legal traditions when their civil codes were drafted (e.g. Mainland China, the Philippines, and Thailand)."
"Furthermore, Israel essentially codifies common law provisions on tort."
"While criminal law aims to punish individuals who commit crimes..."
"Tort law aims to compensate individuals who suffer harm as a result of the actions of others."
"Some wrongful acts, such as assault and battery, can result in both a civil lawsuit and a criminal prosecution..."
"Obligations in both tort and criminal law are more fundamental and are imposed regardless of whether the parties have a contract."
"In civil law jurisdictions based on civil codes, both contractual and tortious or delictual liability is typically outlined in a civil code based on Roman Law principles."
"Tort law is referred to as the law of delict in Scots and Roman Dutch law..."
"Rules regarding civil liability are established primarily by precedent and theory rather than an exhaustive code."
"...due to influence from multiple legal traditions when their civil codes were drafted (e.g. Mainland China, the Philippines, and Thailand)."
"While tort law in civil law jurisdictions largely derives from Roman law..."
"Furthermore, Israel essentially codifies common law provisions on tort."