Examples & Explanations: The Law of Torts

✍ Scribed by Joseph W. Glannon

• Publisher: Wolters Kluwer
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 420
• Edition: 6
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter
Editorial Advisors
Title Page
Copyright Page
About Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S.
Dedication
Contents
Preface to Students
Acknowledgments
Special Notice
Part I. Intentional Torts
Chapter 1. Fundamental Protections: The Tort of Battery
Chapter 2. The Action for Assault: A Tort Ahead of Its Time
Chapter 3. Protecting the Right of Possession: Trespass to Land
Chapter 4. Dueling Remedies: Trespass to Chattels and Conversion
Chapter 5. False Imprisonment: Protecting Freedom of Movement
Chapter 6. The Far Side of the Coin: Classic Defenses to Intentional Torts
Part II. The Concept of Negligence
Chapter 7. That Odious Character: The Reasonable Person
Chapter 8. Borrowing Standards of Care: Violation of Statute as Negligence
Chapter 9. A Phrase in Latin: Res Ipsa Loquitur
Part III. The Causation Enigma
Chapter 10. Reconstructing History: Determining ‘‘Cause in Fact’’
Chapter 11. Risks Reconsidered: Complex Issues in Establishing Factual Cause
Chapter 12. Drawing a Line Somewhere: Proximate Cause
Part IV. The Duty Element
Chapter 13. The Elusive Element of Duty: Two Principles in Search of an Exception
Chapter 14. Vicarious Displeasure: Claims for Indirect Infliction of Emotional Distress and Loss of Consortium
Chapter 15. Caveat Actor: Strict Liability for Abnormally Dangerous Activities
Chapter 16. Strict Products Liability: Basic Theories of Recovery
Chapter 17. More Products Liability: Common ‘‘Defenses’’ to Strict Products Liability Claims
Part V. Damages for Personal Injury
Chapter 18. Personal Injury Damages: The Elements of Compensation
Chapter 19. Compensating Somebody: Wrongful Death and Survival Actions
Part VI. Interlude: Pleading a Personal Injury Case
Chapter 20. Some Legal Anatomy: Thinking Like a Tort Lawyer
Part VII. Liability of Multiple Defendants
Chapter 21. Joint and Several Liability: The Classic Rules
Chapter 22. Honor Among Thieves: Basic Principles of Contribution
Chapter 23. Please Pass the Liability: Respondeat Superior and Nondelegable Duties
Part VIII. The Effect of Plaintiff’s Conduct
Chapter 24. The Once and Future Defense: Assumption of the Risk
Chapter 25. Casting the Second Stone: Comparative Negligence
Chapter 26. The Fracturing of the Common Law: Loss Allocation in the Comparative Negligence Era
Part IX. Taking a Torts Essay Exam
Chapter 27. The Pot at the End of the Rainbow: Analyzing Torts Issues on an Essay Exam
Chapter 28. Dandelions in the Bluebook Garden: Six Classic Exam Writing Mistakes
Chapter 29. Practice Makes Perfect: Examples and Explanations
Index