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Liability for negligence and judicial discretion

Title
Liability for negligence and judicial discretion / Francesco Parisi ; foreword by Peter Stein.
Author
Parisi, Francesco, 1962-
Publication
  • [Berkeley, California] : International and Area Studies, University of California at Berkeley, 1992.
  • ©1992

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Additional Authors
Stein, Peter, 1926-2016
Description
xxiv, 458 pages; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Research series ; number 82
Uniform Title
Research series (University of California, Berkeley. International and Area Studies) ; no. 82.
Subject
  • Negligence
  • Torts
  • Liability (Law)
  • Judicial discretion
  • Civil law
  • Liability, Legal
  • negligence
  • torts
  • Faute (droit)
  • Responsabilité civile
  • Responsabilité délictuelle
  • Processus judiciaire
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Negligence and Discretion: A General Evaluation -- Pt. 1. Origins and Growth of the Notion of Liability Based Upon Fault -- Communal Responsibility in Ancient Law -- Original Grounds of Delictual Liability -- Dichotomy of Culpa in the Roman Heritage -- Medieval Distinctions -- Utrumque Ius: The Two Forces of the Ius Commune -- Scholastic Philosophy and Legal Humanism -- Pt. 2. Principle of Fault in the Modern Codifications -- Intellectual Formants of the Modern Codifications -- Neminem Laedere and the French Codification -- Unlawfulness and Culpability in the German Approach -- Pt. 3. Judicial Evaluation of Negligence in the Common Law Tradition -- Paradigm of the Reasonable Person in the Common Law -- From Reasonableness to Paradigms of Rationality -- Average Standard in Non-Average Situations -- Negligence Liability in the Louisiana Civil Law Tradition -- Pt. 4. Principle of Fault and the Judicial Enforcement of the Rule of Negligence -- Negligence and Individuality -- Legalism and Formalism in the Law of Negligence -- Differentiated Temporal Effects of the Rule of Negligence. Conclusion: The Difficult Balance.
ISBN
  • 0877257027
  • 9780877257028
  • 0877257019
  • 9780877257011
LCCN
92013434
OCLC
  • ocm25674814
  • 25674814
  • SCSB-1975574
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library