LAW 201 Lecture 10: LAW201 Lecture 10 - March 21st, 2017
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A civic wrong between individuals for which the victim can get some legal remedy in the private. Three main categories of torts: negligence, intentional torts, strict liability. * if you prove these five things, you then have the tort of negligence: defences? (ex. Contributory negligence: for example; if someone is texting in driving, but in the same accident the pedestrian was walking in the middle of the street without looking, or simply wasn"t paying attention, that could be considered contributory negligence. Reasonableness exists on a continuum and is situation-specific: depends on the various circumstances of each case, depends upon what is reasonably foreseeable. Stella liebeck: . 9 million to ,000: she received 3rd degree burns, torts said it was unreasonable to brew coffee at the temperature of magma, on appeal the judge reduced the compensation to ,000. Remember considerations: probability of loss, gravity of loss, burden of accident prevention. Example 1: joy was stringing up christmas lights outside her home.
