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Chapter 1: The Role of Modern Tort Law

Chapter 1: The Role of Modern Tort Law

pp. 1-32

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, Queen Mary University of London
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Summary

A tort is a wrongful act or omission, for which compensation or other remedy can be awarded to C (the claimant, or the person aggrieved) against D (the defendant, or tortfeasor). The corpus of Tort law, in general, excludes wrongs which are remediable as a breach of contract (albeit that some claims may give rise to concurrent liability in contract and in tort), a crime (albeit that occasionally a tort may also be a crime), an equitable cause of action, or a restitutionary cause of action.

Keywords

  • meaning of a tort
  • purposes
  • compensation
  • death by tort
  • strike-out applications

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