Understanding torts /
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| Author / Creator: | Diamond, John L., author. |
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| Edition: | Sixth edition. |
| Imprint: | Durham, North Carolina : Carolina Academic Press, LLC, [2018] ©2018 |
| Description: | xxiii, 381 pages 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The understanding series The understanding series. |
| Subject: | Torts -- United States. Torts. United States. |
| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11563170 |
| Related Items: | Revision of:
Understanding torts. |
Table of Contents:
- Intentional interference with persons and property
- Defenses to intentional torts
- The negligence concept and the reasonable person standard of care
- The determination of unreasonableness: breach of duty, custom, and the role of the jury
- Proof of breach
- Statutory standards of care
- "negligence per se"
- Professional negligence
- Duty in negligence cases
- Land occupier duty
- Duty limited by kind of harm
- Cause-in-fact
- Proximate cause or scope of liability
- Joint and several liability
- Damages
- Defenses
- Strict liability
- Products liability
- Nuisance and trespass
- Economic torts
- Misuse of legal processes
- Defamation
- Invasion of privacy.