Nov 4, 2025 · For example, in English common law tort has served such modern problems as product liability or liability for negligent statements, whereas French and German law has traditionally relied …

Nov 4, 2025 · These include, for example, how remuneration (wage or lump sum) is paid, to what extent a worker is integrated into the employer’s business, who supplies the capital or equipment, and, …

A widely cited example is that of the former American football player O.J. Simpson: in 1995 he was acquitted of having murdered his wife and her friend, but two years later he was found liable for their …

Oct 21, 2025 · Hume’s definition of causation is an example of a “regularity” analysis. Other types of analysis include counterfactual analysis, manipulation analysis, and probabilistic analysis.

For example, in English common law tort has served such modern problems as product liability or liability for negligent statements, whereas French and German law has traditionally relied on …

Nov 4, 2025 · For example, they regard offenses leading to personal injury, such as assault (an act producing in the plaintiff/victim a reasonable expectation of immediate unlawful force) and battery …

In torts law, privacy is a right not to be disturbed emotionally by conduct designed to subject the victim to great tensions by baring his intimate life and affairs to public view or by humiliating and annoying …

For example, Congress has delegated authority to conduct the census to the Commerce Department and has created government agencies to promulgate and enforce regulations.

Oct 31, 2025 · In Roman law, for example, abusive chants were punishable by death (see capital punishment). In early English and Germanic law, insults were punished by cutting out the offender’s …

The disabling of an arm, hand, finger, leg, foot, or eye are examples of mayhem. In a number of jurisdictions, mere disfigurement or maiming is considered mayhem.