THe Law of Torts Examples & Explanations

Contents

• Fundamental protection: the tort of battery

• The action for assault: a tort ahead of its time

• Protecting the right of possession: trespass to land

• Dueling remedies: trespass to chattels and conversion

• False imprisonment: protecting freedom of movement

• The far side of the coin: classic defenses to intentional torts

• That odious character: the reasonable person

• Borrowing standards of car: violation of statute as negligence

• A phrase in Latin : res ipsa loquitur

• Reconstructing history : determining "cause in fact"

• Risks reconsidered : complex issues in establishing factual cause

• Drawing a line somewhere: proximate cause

• The elusive element of duty : two principles in search of an exception

• Vicarious displeasure : claims for indirect infliction of emotional distress and loss of consortium

• Strict products liability : basic theories of recovery

• More products liability : common "defenses" to strict products liability claims

• Personal injury damages : the elements of compensation

• Compensating somebody : wrongful death and survival actions

• Some legal anatomy : thinking like a tort lawyer

• Joint and several liability : the classic rules

• Honor among thieves : basic principles of contribution

• Please pass the liability : respondeat superior and nondelegable duties

• The once and future defense : assumption of the risk

• Casting the second stone : comparative negligence

• The fracturing of the common law : loss allocation in the comparative negligence era

• The pot at the end of the rainbow : analyzing torts issues on an essay exam

• Dandelions in the bluebook garden : six classic exam writing mistakes

• Practice makes perfect : examples and explanations.