LAW 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Strict Liability, Detinue, Vicarious Liability
16 Oct 2016
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A tort is a failure to fulfill a private obligation imposed by law. Tort law includes almost every sort of private law wrong outside of breach of contract. Social purpose tort law discourages people form committing private wrongs by requiring them to compensate & restore the wronged party. Tort is when someone breaks a private obligation. A crime is when someone breaks a public obligation. Both tort and contract involve primary and secondary obligations. Primary obligations tell people how they ought to act. Do not tough someone in an offensive way. Obligations in tort are simply imposed by law. Even if you do not know the person or the law, you may not harm them or commit a battery against them. The doctrine of privity states that the only people who can sue or be sued on a contract are the parties themselves.
