Understanding torts, John L. Diamond, Professor of Law, University of California, Hastings College of the Law; Lawrence C. Levine, Professor of Law, University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law; Anita Bernstein, Anita and Stuart Subotnick Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School

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The instance Understanding torts, John L. Diamond, Professor of Law, University of California, Hastings College of the Law; Lawrence C. Levine, Professor of Law, University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law; Anita Bernstein, Anita and Stuart Subotnick Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School represents a material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Biddle Law Library - University of Pennsylvania Law School.

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Understanding torts, John L. Diamond, Professor of Law, University of California, Hastings College of the Law; Lawrence C. Levine, Professor of Law, University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law; Anita Bernstein, Anita and Stuart Subotnick Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School

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John L. Diamond, Professor of Law, University of California, Hastings College of the Law; Lawrence C. Levine, Professor of Law, University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law; Anita Bernstein, Anita and Stuart Subotnick Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School

Instantiates

• Understanding torts

Publication

• New Providence, NJ, LexisNexis, 2013

Note

Includes index

Carrier category

volume

Carrier MARC source

rdacarrier

Content category

text

Content type MARC source

rdacontent

Contents

Intentional interference with persons and property -- Defenses to intentional torts -- The negligence concept and the reasonable person standard of care -- The determination of unreasonableness : breach of duty, custom, and the role of the jury -- Proof of breach -- Statutory standards of care? negligence per se? -- Professional negligence -- Duty in negligence cases -- Land occupier duty -- Duty limited by kind of harm -- Cause-in-fact -- Proximate cause or scope of liability -- Joint and several liability -- Damages -- Defenses -- Strict liability -- Products liability -- Nuisance and trespass -- Economic torts -- Misuse of legal processes -- Defamation -- Invasion of privacy

Dimensions

24 cm.

Edition

Fifth edition.

Extent

xxii, 382 pages

Isbn

9780769872346

Isbn Type

(print)

Lccn

2013027769

Media category

unmediated

Media MARC source

rdamedia

Record ID

.b6885871

System control number

(OCoLC)852682007