Admiralty jurisdiction in tort depends on locality; it must have occurred on the high seas or other navigable waters within admiralty cognizance (2 Farsons Adm.
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Law) Defn: One who commits a tort or trespass; a trespasser; a tort feasor.
And Alan comes and defends force and tort and says that he has taken no liberties from them, but will speak the truth; the lord King John gave him that manor with all its appurtenances for his homage and service for 20l.
The aforesaid Roger, being present, denied [tort and force] and put himself on his law, and in finding pledges of his law withdrew from the bar without licence.
The others had tort me faith an' zeal, but these tort me discipline.
Good, hones' fighters, tho', and tortme how to use my side arms in a tight place.
Young Ladis and Gentlemen tort the heart of rideing, and the gramer language in the natest manner, also grate Kare takein to himprove their morals and spelling, sarm singing and whisseling.
Shotish poker and all other reels tort at home and abroad.
No one, she continues, weeps with her, no one remembers her, Save one that maugre fortunes injurie And times decay, and enuies cruell tort Hath writ my record in true seeming sort.
By this will later be expanded the action of trespass, which even later has offshoots of misdemeanor and the tort of trespass.
The husband is not responsible for any contract, liability or tort of the wife, whether the liability was incurred or the tort was committed before or after marriage.
Even if we must discard the conception that tort liability may flow only from fault, the generalization did a service of the first magnitude not only to legal theory but to the actual administration of justice.
But it was soon recognized that in negligence we have a principle of liability dependent upon a standard, not a tort to be ranged alongside of assault or imprisonment.
Some, indeed, sought to give us a "tort of negligence" as a nominate tort.
We must either brand cases of the third type as historical anomalies, of which we are gradually to rid ourselves, or else revise our notions of tort liability.
We borrowed something of this mode of thought from the Romans in our law of bailments and hence think indifferently in terms of tort or contract in that connection, although historically our action for such cases is delictal.
When cattle are bought already broken for work we stipulate thus: 'Do you guarantee these cattle to be in good health and warrant me against liability for any tort committed by them?
The same stipulations as to health and against liability for tort are made as in the case of cattle, leaving out whatever is inapplicable to dogs.
We shall see in the chapter on torts that a tort is defined to be a breach of duty imposed by law for which a suit for damages may be maintained.
Claims for tort are not provable, that is, claims for injuries to person or property not arising out of contact.
Not only is the principal liable for the contracts of his agent, but he is also liable for any tort which an agent may commit, so long as he is acting in the course of his business.
There is not as much qualification upon a party's liability for tort as for contract.
The violation of this duty, on the part of A, constitutes the tort of libel or slander.
Every tort involves the violation of a duty owed to the individual.
It has been stated by the Court of Appeals of New York that no satisfactory definition of a tortcan be found.
Hence it follows that the master's liability in tort flows from a breach of duty owed by him to his servant.
