Understanding Torts / by John L. Diamond, Lawrence C. Levine and Anita Bernstein

Includes index

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