Seeking civility : common courtesy and the common law /
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Boston :
Northeastern University Press,
[2003]
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Table of Contents:
- Keep your hands to yourself: assault and battery
- Keep your hands to yourself II: civility between the sexes
- Trespasses to property: a man's home is his castle
- Nuisance: trespass's messier companion
- Stevens v. Hay, etc.: how bad things can get
- Outrageous! the intentional infliction of severe emotional distress
- Sticks and stones can break your bones: verbal abuse
- Badgering: by telephone, on the street, and by computer chip
- Nasty words: blasphemy, obscenity, and cursing
- Gossip gone bad: defamation
- Incivility incarnate: litigation
- Revenge by litigation: wrongful civil proceedings.