what is law of torts?
Answers
Answered by
0
A tort, in common law jurisdictions, is a civil wrong that causes a claimant to suffer loss or harm resulting in legal liability for the person who commits the tortious act
Answered by
9
Question- what is law of torts?
ANSWER-Tort differs from crime as it is redressed by compensation or damages and not by punishment or fine though the same wrong may be a tort as well as a crime concurrently.In which they tries to shift the loss from the victim to the person who inflicted it on him but at times, it looks to a third party to shoulder liability, like social insurance for wrongs which are inevitable incidents of modern social living like accidents on roads and in industrial establishments. Tort differs from breach of contract as the rights and duties arise, in case of contract, from the agreement and are enforceable against the parties concerned. Breach of contract may be redressed by liquidated damages.Law of torts provides for pecuniary compensation for injuries to person and property recoverable by the process of law. Swayed by the notion of security, it co-relates wrongful act to the harm which it causes, and exhibits different scales of evaluation at different levels for some kinds of harm call for liability independent of one's fault while other kinds create liability only for intentional or negligent wrong-doing.
Similar questions