Understanding torts /
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| Author / Creator: | Diamond, John L. |
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| Edition: | Fifth edition. |
| Imprint: | New Providence, NJ : LexisNexis, c2013. |
| Description: | xxii, 382 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Understanding series (New York, N.Y.) 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/9335455 |
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.