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THE ELEMENTS OF TORT IN TURKISH LAW

open access: yesIndonesia Private Law Review
According to the Turkish Code of Obligations, one of the sources of obligation is tort. A tort is the damage caused to another person by an unlawful act of a negligent person with a causal link.
Yunus Emre Ay
doaj   +1 more source

The Influence of "Reasonableness" on the Element of Conduct in Delictual or Tort Liability - Comparative Conclusions

open access: yesPotchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, 2019
In this contribution the influence of reasonableness on the element of conduct in the South African law of delict will be analysed and compared with the requirement of some form of conduct in English tort law, American tort law and the French law of ...
Raheel Ahmed
doaj   +1 more source

Animal translations: AI and the intelligibility of non‐human worlds Traduire l'animal : l'IA et l'intelligibilité des mondes non humains

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Amid the general sense of worry that large language models will soon drown out human voices, some researchers are optimistic that machine learning will allow humans to listen to and understand animal voices to an unprecedented extent. As part of a broader project aimed at interspecies communication, a loosely connected set of animal behaviourists, AI ...
Courtney Handman
wiley   +1 more source

What Does Tort Law Do? What Can It Do? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
It’s not hard to describe what tort law does. As a first approximation, we might say that tort empowers those who suffer certain sorts of injuries or invasions to seek remedies from those who brought about those injuries or invasions. The challenge is to
Hershovitz, Scott
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The Role of Belgian and Dutch Tort Law in the Legal Battle Against Damage as a Result of Smoking Behaviour

open access: yesUtrecht Law Review, 2019
Can tort law play a significant role in the Dutch and Belgian legal systems in the legal fight against damage caused by smoking behaviour? This contribution looks into the compensatory function of tort law.
Ilse Samoy   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Issues of Defining Administrative and Tort Relations as an Object of Legal Research

open access: yesBulletin of Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs, 2020
The concept of administrative and tort relations, their social nature, features (properties, characteristics), specific features as a type of administrative and legal relations, structure (objects, subjects and content) and types of administrative and ...
O. V. Panasiuk
doaj   +1 more source

Fronting in Old Catalan: Asymmetries between Narration and Reported Speech1

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 1-28, March 2025.
Abstract This article explores the distribution, syntax, and information structure of XVS clauses in the narrative text and the reported speech of a thirteenth‐century Old Catalan chronicle, the Llibre dels Fets. It is shown that XVS occurs mainly within reported speech and in embedded clauses.
Afra Pujol i Campeny
wiley   +1 more source

Palsgraf, Punitive Damages, and Preemption [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This Article utilizes civil recourse theory along with a pragmatic conceptualist methodology to solve three problems in tort law: one on Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co., one on punitive damages (as seen in the Supreme Court’s struggles with Philip ...
Zipursky, Benjamin C.
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Introducing No-Fault Compensation in Slovenian Medical Tort Law

open access: yesStudia Iuridica Lublinensia, 2022
The National Strategy for Quality and Safety in Healthcare 2022–2031, drafted in November 2021 from the Slovenian Ministry of Health, sets out, i.a., the basic foundations of a no-fault compensation model for medical errors.
Maja Ovčak Kos
doaj   +1 more source

Reliance as Promise

open access: yesAmerican Business Law Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract In the face of powerful criticism, the “reliance interest” continues to hold an impactful position in judicial and academic treatment of contract damages. And yet, the theoretical foundation of reliance damages for breach of contract remains unsettled.
Yehuda Adar, Efi Zemach
wiley   +1 more source

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