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Causation in the law / by H.L.A. Hart and A.M. Honoré.

Title: Causation in the law / by H.L.A. Hart and A.M. Honoré.
Author: Hart, H. L. A. (Herbert Lionel Adolphus), 1907-1992
Publication: Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1959.

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Additional Authors

Honoré, Tony, 1921-2019

Description

454 p.; 23 cm.

Subject

Proximate cause (Law)

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliography.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

Part I. The analysis of causal concepts -- I. Philosophical preliminaries -- II. Causation and common sense -- III. Causation and responsibility -- IV. Causation in legal theory -- V. Causation and sine qua non -- Part II. The common law -- VI. The law of tort: causing harm -- VII. The law of tort: inducing wrongful acts, occasioning harm -- VIII. Concurrent causes and contributory negligence -- IX. Foreseeability and risk -- X. The sense of judgment and moral blame -- XI. Causation and contract -- XII. Criminal law: causing harm -- XIII. Criminal law: causing, inducing, permitting others to act -- XIV. Causation and the principles of punishment -- XV. Evidence and procedure -- Part III. Continental theories of causation -- XVI. Individualizing theories and theory of conditions (bedingungstheorie) -- XVII. The generalizing theories: adequate cause

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OCLC

192940
SCSB-10184463

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Harvard Library