Private wrongs /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ripstein, Arthur (Author)
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2016.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : retrieving the idea of a private wrong
  • What you already have, Part I : your body and property
  • Using what you have : misfeasance and nonfeasance
  • Wrongdoing for which the offender must pay : negligence
  • Use what is yours in a way that does not harm your neighbor : strict liability
  • A malicious wrong in its strict legal sense : motive and intention in tort law
  • What you already have, Part II : your own good name
  • Remedies, Part I : as if it had never happened
  • Remedies, Part II : before a court
  • Conclusion : horizontal and vertical.