Law of Torts
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The Law of Torts
The body of common-law doctrine concerning civil wrongs, whose coherence the book seeks to establish.
I claim it because the purpose of this book is to show that there really is a Law of Torts, not merely a number of rules of law about various kinds of torts—that this is a true living branch of the Common Law, not a collection of heterogeneous instances.
If not, then there is no such thing as the law of torts in the sense in which there is a law of contracts, or of real property, or of trusts, and when we make use of the name we mean nothing but a collection of miscellaneous topics which, through historical accidents, have never been brought into any real classification.
Therefore the law of torts is necessarily confined by the limits within which those Courts exercised their jurisdiction.
Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
The branch of English law governing civil wrongs, cited as predominantly judge-made.
Nine-tenths, at least, of the law of contract, and the whole, or nearly the whole, of the law of torts are not to be discovered in any volume of the statutes.