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.
If we are asked, What are torts?
The genera of torts in English law.
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.