Understanding torts /
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Author / Creator: | Diamond, John L. |
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Edition: | 4th ed. |
Imprint: | New Providence, NJ : LexisNexis, c2010. |
Description: | xxi, 380, [19] p. ; 24 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Understanding series Understanding series (New York, N.Y.) |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8132455 |
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 or legal cause
- Joint and several liability
- Damages
- Defenses
- Strict liability
- Products liability
- Nuisance and trespass
- Economic torts
- Misuse of legal processes
- Defamation
- Invasion of privacy.