Research Catalog

Title

Tort law and economic interests / Peter Cane.

Author

Cane, Peter, 1950-

Publication

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1991.

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Description

xxxviii, 530 pages; 25 cm

Summary

This study examines the ways in which the law of tort provides protection against injury to financial assets such as money, property, and contracts. In the past twenty-five years or so, there has been much debate and litigation concerned with the extent to which the law of torts should be involved in compensating for economic loss caused by negligent conduct. Many believe that the primary role of tort law is to provide a system of compensation for death and personal injury and that it has, at most, only a marginal part to play in protecting economic interests. This book is an attempt to examine the whole of tort law in terms of protection of financial assets and of people's interest in creating and preserving wealth. It discusses the concepts and principles which tort law utilizes to this end, and the relationship between tort law and other legal techniques of providing such protection. It focuses primarily on the kinds of financial interests the law of tort protects and on the sort of protection it provides. This approach allows a fresh examination of the functions of tort law and of the justifications, both social and doctrinal, for the imposition of tort liability so far as it is concerned with the protection of wealth.

Subject

• Torts > Economic aspects
• Liability (Law) > Economic aspects
• Interest (Ownership rights) > Economic aspects
• 86.39 civil law: other
• Unerlaubte Handlung
• Onrechtmatige daad
• Aansprakelijkheid
• Rechtseconomie
• Intérêt (Droit) > Aspect économique
• Responsabilité (Droit) > Aspect économique
• Responsabilité civile
• Großbritannien

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Part I: Introduction. 1. Foundations. Part II: Tort Doctrine. 2. Property and related interests -- 3. Contractual interests -- 4. Other assets -- 5. Interests competing with the plaintiff's. Part III: The Wider Context of Tort Law. 6. Tort law and other legal categories -- 7. Methods of resolving tort disputes -- 8. Administrative methods of protecting economic interests -- 9. Insurance and tort law. Part IV: Theory. 10. The province and aims of tort law.

ISBN

• 0198252366
• 9780198252368

LCCN

90048839

OCLC

• ocm22505912
• 22505912
• SCSB-9012704

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library